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Style

and

Elegance..

by

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PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT

PLASTIC POSSIBILITIES

BY JOAN O'SULLIVAN 17IVES aren't the only

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ones wielding, rolling pins these days. Husbands find they come in handy. too but not for cooking.

The conventional kitchen tool being put to a new use, and rather surprising one. It's ant invaluable old in the do-it- yourself job of applying a plastic top to an end or coffee tuble. And the job, by the way, is an easy- oon..

Roll Top in Place All you do is cut a plastic sheet to size. Apply a qukk- adhesive to the table setting

top and let it dry for 15 min. vica. Now,

put your plastic

in place. Roll it dat with

a kitchen

This is

7 coung

pin

Thai's

It!

one of a number

of plastic possibilities for home handymen who want to 8x up the house. A recent showing also introduced several elber new products that cro a breczo zor amateurs to handle.

Wall Coverings

There were IWO W wali coverings, one = plastic file, the other a plastic fiorie that goes up like wallpaper. Either one is easy to work with.

If you have a kitchen coun- ter that, feeds modernising

consider now plastic Panels that need no adhesive what- 10over. They're heid in place with a moulding.

Home sowers will be inter- ested in a group of plastic fabrics that can be turned into draperics, spreads nnel other | household liems. You can run them up on the sewing machine, 100

Upholstery's Easy One exhibit at this

plastics

show displayed upholstery

fabrics; even showed how to cover is chair with them. I Lakes a bit of patience, of course, but unce you've cut a pattern, the task is relatively simple,

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A now lampshade kit should bo of special interest to those who like completely co ordinated room. The kit ens ables homemakers to place wall-paper or drapery fabrics of their own choosing between clear plastic

sheets and thus!.

create a a lampshade that matches other accessories in the room.

In addition to the fact that

most of those plastic materials Are easy to handle, they're`CK- tremely practical, too.

Just Right For Informal

Settings

"Young couples especially, are enthusiastic about stainless steel table settings. This has induced world-famous designers to lend their talents 'ió creating ware that, while it is elegant, is just right for the informal setting.

Good stainless steel tabloware isn't cheap. Tho - higher the price, the more the were is likely to be realstami to staining, zoratching and discolouring,"

As for the type of finish, both the shiny mirror-ke Anish and the dull satin finish are available and are a matter of choice. The main thing is that the finish be even..

Rounded Edges

In a good product, oli odges are ammoothed sex rounded, Look for this pariškularly in spoon clans and the apace between fork tines.

Unlike silver, steel does not have to bo hrany to be strong pri insting. Therefore, sheer weight is not so important as weight distribution Differentiated thick- ness along the length of a place gives better balance, and delicate designs do not risk bending or denting because of the intrinsic strength of sical.

And it's nice to know that: quality steel har

# stain resistance only equalled by that of platinum.

"The Orange Juice Season is here!”

IT'S TIME FOR

Sunkist

The PURE Juice of the finest SUNKIST Valencia oranges, fresh from the trans fin, California is squeezed ready for you In a can of SUNKIST QUE Fradkle concentrated orange juice.

Do you know. that a siị pơNCE, KAR makes li pints of delicious orange juice. Do you know that one can of SUNKIST is equal to the juice al ewetre freshly picked oranges!

Keep a stock of SUNKIST Quich Frazen orange juice in your relṛi erator.. MORE

OBTAINABLE AT ALL.

california

DAIRY FARM STORES $1.20 per tin

SODA FOUNTAINS & RESTAURANTS

THE FIRST STEP IN UPHOLSTERING A CHAIR is to make a paper pattern.

Trace it on your plastic fabric. Cut it out and tack it to the chair. to cover raw edges. Left, noto "the finished chair.

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A ROLLING PIN is used to smooth n

Use welling

IF KITCHEN COUNTERS need new plastic table top. Quick-drying adhesive tops, you can install plastic "onts," use

moulding to secure them.

was first applied.

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PLASTIC'S SO PRACTICAL. Keep it clean with soap and water. The headboard, spread, table skirt and valance showri here are plastic.

WANT A LAMPSHADE to match your draperies? Then make it. Fit the fabric of your choice between

Mewtwo plastic sheets,

DOLL UP SMALL FRY

FOODS"

By ALICE.DENHOFF

STARTING off today with something for small-fry, Nothing like a bit of whim to add in- terest to, kasle foods, so you'll discover when you serve them special milk toast, fancifully shaped,

Antinal shapes, which are especiony popular, may be made | with cook.e cutiers or by tracing animul pictures on cardboard which are used as patterns on the toast to make cuving easy. Use raisins for eyes, nose niid mouth, “l'ho mail toast. is so good for 'em, but doao up this way,

they won't guess it!

Circus Party

Children whose birindays fall during summer and the first golden days of autumn, would surely enjoy a circus parly with decorations geared to the ocea slon-In keeping with the big show theme, a suggested blath- day lunch might include the all- time favourite, frankfurters

ers on buns and some pink lemonade,

Highlight of the meal, besides ico

cream, could be a circus cake, easily made with a cake covered with colourful Icing into which animal crackers have been prossed. Another cake might havo sticks of candy placed all around the edge, and a decora- tive crepe paper cunopy fasten- od on top to make a tent, A. bit of extra work, perhaps, but fin't it worth it?

Fruit Cocktail Sauco

A sundae sauce keeps com pany with ice cream and all are pleased, children and adults. alike. It's a perfect twosome.. For something especially de licious by way of a sundes sauce, try one built argund tinned fruit cocktail.

For 3. c, sauce to go with a gallon ice cream, combine thap. cornstarch, 1⁄4 tsp. salt and 1/5 C. sugar in saucepan. Drain a tin truit cocktail, and gradually add Bould

cornstarch, surring constantly to avold lump, Sim- mer, stirring constantly, until mixture is clear and thickened,

about minutes. Remove from heat; stir in c. lemon juice and tsp. grated lemon rind. Add fruit cocktail; chill. Serve over ice cream,

Give Year-Old Baby A Chance To Explore

WE

By W. W. BAUER, M.D.

single

WHILE the

candle probably on a three-meal a day. burns on the birthday routine, but is still better off to cake, aixi tlioTM baby in whose have "these privately ̈ ́ ̈ruther honour all this goes on is still

though

bewildered by the fuss, mother than with the family,

this is not necessary. He has is quite likely having her doubts

the need

as to whether

DA

well as her baby is doing probably outgrown

might. Mrs for a morning nap. He still Anderson's baby, now, is eating takes his afterapOn neg, of spinach. And Mrs Cunningham course, and goes to bed very is boasting about her

boy's

rapid progress toward walking And Mrs. -- so on, far into the birthday..

carly. Only under exceptionat Dwako circumstances does he at night, and then usually goes. off to sleep again quickly.

He is now able to uso bus hands fairly well, especially

These comparisons are prol-- ably inevitable. Yet there is only one sure thing about a baby's progress, and that is that each baby is a law unto with large objects like is ball himself. You canno! hurry and blocks and his cup. But him much, and if you try, you his finer co-ordination has not get into trouble which could yet doveloped and his at- » so easily have been avoided.

To compare a baby's pro- spoon Kress, you

must

have

A

tempts to feed himself with a demonstrates this. Yet he should be encouraged to do. ntandard. Very well, measure his best, even if much of the

against

himself. Is ho spaghetti does land on the door. spaghetti doing more things,

yes, he's eating doing Oh,

soups and things better, than he did thres now, also creamed

similar soft foods. He will

him

of four weeks ago? Then never

mind about Mrs Anybody Else's have several teeth by now, and little boy or girl. If one baby should

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be encouraged to uso

neighbourhood is ahead nem on hard toast,

Now, another may be ahead next month. They progress. at

different speeds

stages of growth.

at different

Infant Research

Ultimately He is very much intercated in

alt normal bables grow up, and things about him, and will get there is surprisingly ittle dif- into mischief which is just a ference in the time it takes silly adult word, for research. them to mrive at that goal.

Don't Make Hasto

He has a shiny new world to

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acquainted with and be yet learned that some things in it are beautiful and In estimating a baby's pro- soft and pleasant, but others

gress at the age of one year, we are sharp or hot or rough or For can set out only broad gen- otherwise unpleasant cral lines, leaving specifies to parents, this is a time." for the doctor who sees and ex watchfulness. He should be amines him.

giver ample leeway. to find things out for himself, stoly, The one-year-old cau

that do no, real prob- Litto "hurts" bably stand, and perhaps walk, domago may be permitted at alone. But not long, or, fur. this stage, but only after an Too many parents at this point effort has been made to teach try to force matters. This is un- the child not to touch dangerous wiso...

But not for the com- objects. Real danger, of course, should be guarded agaitat, reason that. monly accepted

and electric walking too early Stoves, fireplaces. favourą bowlegs. Those are due appliances are among the greats.

standing or

to bad fooding (specifically est dangers.

rickets tuo to lack of vitamin

The

D) rather than bearing weight paying Investment at thig too early,

Pingo is one or more of the col- reason for

10 koop avoiding haste is psychological, lapsible gates mede Hurry seldom speeds up learn children from falling downstairs, Ing, to walk alone and it may They are equally useful across 'put undesirabla - pressurow on windows, or across "doors into the chliu grand room, laundry), that babe

dangerous rooms (klichen, bath can play

and explore and be

The baby's dally schedule be- gins to khow, small algna of his near mother without being in growing up. By this time be la, danger,

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