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PRACTICAL

HOMECRAFT

WITH A NEW CONCEPT OF

LITTLE GIRL'S JUMPER

CROSS-STITCH BUNNIES

MATERIALS:

Couls Chain and of following alternate row. Mercer-Crochet No. 20 (20 Work 1 row. Cast off.

Irm.). 6 balls selected colour.

1 skein Clark's Anchor Stranded Cotton In contrasting colour, 1

Milwards Phantom pair each Knitting Needles Nos. 13 and 14. 2 press siuds,

TENSION; 10 stsm1 in. (2.5

CTB.).

MEASUREMENTS;

Chest:: 30 in. (76 cm). Length 10% in. (42 cm.). Sleeve Seams4%. in. 111.3 cm.).

ABBREVIATIONS: X — kalt; D-puri: sta-stitches; at st stocking stitch.

THE BACK

Using No. 14 needles, east on 120 x Work In R1, på ribbing for 3% in (95 em.). Change to

No. 13 neerites.

Next Row: K2, twler mi next st; repent from to end 180 st on needle.

for

#1

Iteturn to sts left on spare needle and retaining 40 sta centre front

neck-band, work on remaining 42 sts, join ing thread at neck edge, work to match fret halt.

NECK BAND

Join right shoulder BCDT, using the back stitch method. With right side of work towards you and No. 14 neccles, pick up 53 als down left front neck, k across 46 sts left at centre front pick up 52 ste up right front neck edge and k nerose 40 mis at back neck.

1st Row: K1, K2 tog, (pl, k!) 20 times, pl, k2 tog, pl and

with coloured mark this st thread, k2 tog, (pl, ki) 23 times, pt, k2 tog, pl and mark this at with

enloured thread, k2 tog. (pi, kl) 20 times, pl, k2 tog. pl and mark

this sh with coloured thread, k2 tog, (pi, k1) 23 times, pl, k2 tog, kl.

2nd Row: K1, p2 tog, (pl, k!} 22 times, p1, p2 tog, ki p2 tog. (pl. kl) 10 times, pl. p2 tog. kl. p2 fog. (pi, k1) 22 times,

1. p2 tog. k1, p2 tog, (pl, ki) 10 times. pl, p2 tog, kl.

Next Row: P. Continue in și al untál back measures 10% ln, (20 cm.), ending on sp row, Cast off 9 sta at beginning of next 2 rows. Decrease at each end of next 4 rows and at be- ginning of every row until 130 sis remain, Conunue in st st until back measures 10 in. (42) em), ending on a row.

Cast off 14 six at beginning of next 6 rows, then leave remain and after each marked t), keep.. ing sta on E spare needle for ing regularity cơ rib and mitre Cast Turners for rows more, neck.

off very loosely ribwise,

THE FRONT

Work as for back until front measures 12 in. (32.3 em.). ending on wrong side of fahrie

Next Row: K42, turn. Leave remaining spare needle.

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on

H

Work In this manner, {cter erensing one at at beginning and and quest before end of row

THE SLEEVES

Using No. 14 needles cast on 100 sts. Work in kl, pl ribbing

of (11.3 cm.),

for 1 in, (2.5 cm.). Change to No. 13 needles, increasing at

and Work on these each end of 5th row

Cast of 6 sis sts for left shoulder until front every following 0th row until beginning of next 2 rows. De- Continue crease at each end of next 8 measures 10% in. (42 cm.), en: 110 sts are on needle. ing at armhole edge. Cast off on

these

sleeve rows, at beginning of every row 14 sis at beginning of next ene, measures approximately 411⁄2 in. until 42 sta remain, and at each

until sts

MIX THAT CHRISTMAS CAKE NOW....

THEN should one begin

By HELEN BURKE

We make the Christmas Cake? My answer to that question is: NOW. While I do not insist that it is essential to make a Christ- mas Pudding well ahead of the day, I do insist that a Christmas Cake should be made four or five weeks in advance.

Because a Christmas Pudding has to be butted a second time, the fruits in it do have a kind of special ripening. A cuko, however, docs not have

this it second

So

19 cooking important to give the fruit plenty of time to perfume and contribute its moisture to the the cake. The further ahead cake is baked the belter it will be,

Christmas Cake is the A easiest of all to make just the one for a bride to tackle. You do not want it to rize more than trife and the less the mixture is beaten the better, the result. A "light" caloo may sink-and so may its fruit.

The mixture I give here is for an 8% 9% or 9-inch tin at least 34 Incites desp.

THE FRUIT:

and,

arc

A Christmas Cako is the estica) of all to make.

and

other liquor, lemon rind vanilla essence-Just enough to break up the eggs and mix the lot. Stir a little at a time into tho creamed mixture, alter- nately with the flours, sifled with the salt and spices. Do not beat,

using

Cast

SECOND CHILDHOOD

W

By W. W. BAUER, M.D.

and helplessness

1

JD are accustomed to the unacceptable faol of his

hearing second child- destitution against it. hood spoken of In a Another, aged 00, with derogatory or pitying way, history of stroke, but with good as if it represented the do- memory and little other evidence of deterioration, heard pigeons terioration of the aged

gooing-he had opent his child- Individual-a regression in hood on a farm-and bands

to childhood patterns. And playing he had put in a good so it may. But Dr P. deal at time drinking in a salcon where there was music. He was Rosenthal, after a study of pleasant and amiable, went to 185 aged persons at religious worship regularly, and Bellevue Hospital In New blandily admitted that he had no regrets for anything to had øver York, presents a new con- done. cept of second childhood.

and

Positive attitude needed

He says that there is also a normal second childhood, a part

The main trouble is not with of normal song, "a phenomenon the aged, but with the commun- which not only exposes the un- ty which has failed to give them resolved conflicts of childhood an environment in which they

their

and make characteristic defences, express their needs but also under

A new and favourable con- their contributions. diidona, razotivates the creative- positive attitude, which looks nes, the capacity for learning, for and makes use of the crea-

pleasure, for

released by tho fulfilment, tive sources which dre the distinguishing aging process, is what is needed marks of normal childhood." in our approach to the second

He compares

for

the adjustment childhood. to old age to componentions at Leonario do Vinci meid? other critical ages in the deve- "Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant lopmental cyclei

infancy, water loses its purity and in cold environ- weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigoura fere with the instinct for of the mind.” self-preservation; thla danger overcome. In adole-

the danger La trom mental influences which inter-

сол

bro

scence and maturity, the conflict usually comes from interference with sexual instinets; this, too, is a modifiable danger.

Compensation capacity

SCRUB TIN OPENER, TOO

REMEMBER the day you

In old age, the problem created by environmental inter- end of following 0 rows. off.

ference with the instincts of TO COMPLETE

self-preservation. But now the person is assulled with a myriad Press with hot Iron over damp alimenta of the

with cloth, avoiding ribbed

Inst washed your tin sections falling capacities, and is unable opener? Somehow Join second shoulder seam using to cope with the problem.

many back stitch method and leaving

good cooks and careful Living organisms—not man 21/2 in. (6.5 cm.) free at neck alone react to external change housekeepers forget to do edge (including neck-band). by

change them that one job. Everything Joln side and siceve seams,

Trees and plants may back stitch for stocking blossom after serious injury: the scrubbed, but all too often

selvergoing

elac in the kitchen gets

sitch and un oversewn scam human organism reacts Ir ↑ for ribbing. Set sleeves armholes and rew, again using, of aging if the person has

into similar manner to the challenge that invaluable aid is for-

gotten at wash-up time. With right stam.

capacity for compervation, side of work towards you work somalle (bodily) 1 row double crochet neatly paychologle. wound shoulder opening. Sew

In his study of 135 patientsguing to dip Into the contents press studs on neck-band,

90 men--Dr of the tin. So unless the gadget Using a 3 strands of Stranded women and

Rocanthal concluded that in- has been scrubbed with hot Colton work 3 bunnies on left dications of senile

cross st. following were not due to

psychotes shoulder In

ковр or detergent suds, it's organic brain going to carry the old food re- diagram for position of crosses conditions alone. Memory Work other 3 bunntes in reverse feets, confusion or deterioration in it opens, Then there's the de-aldue right back into the next

buck

stlich

on right shoulder (see Illustra- tion). Damp and press.

DIAGRAM

FRINGED

Finally add the remaining ingredients and mix them just enough to

evenly get them distributed. The mixture should bo just sift enough to fall easily off the spoon.

SKIRT

MATERIALS: 81 023.

Line the greased lin with two thicknesses of greaseproof paper, Golden Eagle Chunkynit. exter ding about an inch above Length of 1 inch elastic it, Turn the mixture into it and

level off. Leave for an hour, to fit waist.

1 pair long

then place in the cool part of size 000, 1, 3 and 5 knitting the oven-that is, not near the needles. top-and bake for 4 to 4 rathor "self-coztained." hours at 270 to 300 That is why I like to cut at Fahr., or gas mark 1. least a quarter of them in half. THE TESTS I do not worry about currants. but some of them can halved,

THE INGREDIENTS.

also be

MEASUREMENTS: To degrees fit 24-26 inch waist. Length

wita fringe 28 inches,

TENSION: 12 stitches

8 inches.

K. ABBREVIATIONS: Gently draw it from the oven knit; p. puri; st (8) and Reten! If there is a slight stitch(es); kw. knitwise. hissing sound, it is not yet

Test

tho

calce

this

8 oz, teik brown or caster suser: cake wir the third anger.

way:

ready to be taken out. Give It BACK AND FRONT. ALIKE Here is the cake I have already a little longer and test

again. made this year: 8 on, butler: Or press the contro

. With alzo 000 neèdies, cast on atre top of the

It 122 sts. 1 row. P. i row. golden strap; a large etas: 3 to cake a low minutes longer. 1. fablemoon black treacle or a depression remains, vo the song

✔ tablespools cherry, brandy third test for

is

4 kw., kl, pass alip 4 over ki, Air Paitern row: K, 1, slip kl, pl,ki, p.. 1, ki all into next st., * repeat from to

last at klei

domeness cold

arated

shrink when the cake has rind of chokemon: +34 tea little from the sides of the tin, spoon ... vanilla "essenoni | 4; 08/ Leave the cake in its sin umilito If the fruit' appears to be dry self-raising" flour; 6.ox plain it has cooled to "ward then fod Pattern row: P.

perhaps, not as clean as it flour 14 teaspoon malig lá to 3. turn it one on to a wire rack. should be quickly wash it (but teaspoon mixed splee; pinch of I have found that the over 3rd Pattern rew: K.1; * 1.1, rof the stoned raisins), Demis ground einnasson (opelerial); temperature given pro- p.1, 1. p.1, 1 all into next. In a colandes then spread – the widen of grated usimes;' 13'0%. duce, the best all-round results dwhip 4 kwiki, pasi slip 4 fruit on a cloth tor dey." Do this" curranto) 15, mt, julianna" (hepty a warm brown cake with thin >ver:*1* * repent/fra; three to four days bett mix the cake. E

Ready-packaged fruită

betoro

bo clean and not fad day,

The stoned; rafalną.

their sheds Bare'boss ruSÓI

7112V Tour Marras" the whole

1. hava

khe butter, add three in Fine too qulori di place,

mert a thicklen Spiece of brows, pas

to

well ht The tip end or the edge of the cutting wheri is inevitably

may and oken do represent risk of contaminating perfectly

we safely and

Individual responses to environ- good food that mental impacts, in the absence scientifically packed. of any demonstrable brain lesions during life or at post- mortem. These are functionings In response 40 environmental demands, and they must go on

long

the Individual As endeavours to survive.

Various forms of auxiety

**

Anxieties experienced by the aging may take various forms- all calculated to assure attention

The food residue, even tiniest Particles that remain on the opener tip or edge of the cutting wheel, may have collected dan- gerous bacteria,

If you use a wall tin opener, tate à minute or so to dotach it and scrub it in the sink with

to the person, Some wander hot cud. But don't let it so. away: son* keep the family Cutting wheels must retain awake at night with their de- certain amount of oil to keep mands or their needs; some dis-functioning efficiently and you turb neighbours; some resort to don't want to Incessant talking.

One of Rosenthal's patients, a

small room and acted out the

cil

wash away that

destitute man of 84, took over a with cutting wheel should be The hand-type lin opener

role of a busy executive, giving washed the same way-quickly and counterzanding orders, and with hot suds and rinses. refusing to oboy.

types can soak in bot

and growing Other angry at interference. He was suds without Impairing their

denying,

through his fantasy, | efficiency.

and work a further inches, Cast of 'in rib. then change të mirë u noodler TO MAKE UPA "and" work; n further: B. inches, Join wide seams.

Now change to sizo 5 noedies. into wait, with a hors *** Nexi rówi * ki, 2.2 together * çalarze maske Frings.

repost from to to las Disini indoli B) inçta? lengths mrið

50 strand & thron