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Acorns sat in 'bulb bowls make a pretty and lasting, table decoration. later on when the tiny trees begin to grow. Use a mixture of Abro and earth for planting.

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When you give a dinner-party you can save a good deal of "fasa" by preparing gravies, suures and coffer in good time, and standing them in a pan of hot water until required:

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An extra blanket folded over the bottom of the bed will give nddod' warmth without, undue weight.

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SPONGE AS BEAUTY AID

A red rubber sponge which mon sures 5 inches long, 3 inches wide and 1 inches thick, is a muro aid to beauty.

First use it to cleanse your face.. Fill basin will hat water soften cd with oatment. Dip the eponge in it and press it gently but firmly against your skin, increasing and degreasing the pressure so that the [sponge nets as à viêuum or quotion

machine,

Keep on dipping it into the hot water and repeating the procesi until all your pores are

open.

Then a cleansing cream in the adal way. Finally, close the pores. with the nane sponge, well rinsed dipped into cold and slightly an tringent water..

After Your Bath.

After your bath, stand in bot water, bakir the sponge, hot, take it by one end and give yourself so hard alaps with the other end, re- heating the sponge as soon as it cools. Use it where it is needed and use it daily.

Use the rubber, poage to give your upper arm "un oatmeal frio- tion guaranteed to make the skin smooth and the circulation brisk enough to prevout any rodnost. Just take the dry spurge, dip it in medium oatmeal and rub briskly.

Then, again, if you have a hand- nche, dip the sponge end in some east de Cologne and ruh the bass of WE WILL ALL WEAR the brain,just above the spine end- fing, for a few moments-and think

: TAMS SOON. out some more things for yourself!

FASHION NUGGETS.

Playing cards may be cleaned with a piece of cotton wool dipped Evening dresses show much, elab. in methylated spirit..

oration in their back treatment, Casendes, flounce, and a variety of Rub the ssh-cords of windows drapes are cut in one with the and the ropes of verandah blinds gown, adding grace, and still carry with a lard candle. This willing out the slim silhoutte in front lubricate them without, making them greasy, and help to make. them more durable.

A teaspoonful of methylated avirit but into the rinsing water for white silk and coloured articles will provent them going yellow, and after ironing it imparts a gloss, like new.

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The fur scarf in lei fashion, has a rival in the figure-eight scarf. This is slipped over the head in such a way as to form a cross in fronte at the same enveloping the

far is correct for this type, such as sable and Baum inarten.

neek and waist. The chorter-haired

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After a few olives have been re- Sleeves and neck lines arn, of moved from a bottle pour in a den maior importance this season. The sertspoonful of olive oil. This high puffs are giving way to lower forms a seal on the liquid and pre-fullness which holds in tight at the vents the formation of a mouldy waist. Diagonal and soft drapy seam. Olives this treated will last neck lines are favoured for both for months.

tailored and dressy wear.

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THE CHILDREN'S CORNER.

HOW THE BAROMETER WAS

INVENTED.

PROBLEM THAT LED TO NOTABLE DISCOVERY.

"We all watch the Enrometer to seo what the weather is going to be, but few of us know how this useful instrument came to be invented.

When the Grand Duke of Tuscany in 1610 ordered the construction "of fountains on the terrace of his l palace it was found impossible to get the water to rice higher than 32ft No. one could understand this, so the Duke wroto to Galileo, but even that great man could not! explain the mystery,

Elie pupil and friend: Torricelli,. however, discovered the cause. He' found that when along tube hid the air drawn out of it water would rise in the tube 32ft, and no more.. ***Ab," said hê, something must drite the water up into the tube," and he hit on the correct solution, namely, that the air has" weight, and that it was the weight of the air that drove the water up. This. discovery gave him the idea of the

barometer.

Ho reasoned that if a liquid twice as heavy as water were a the column held up would be 18ft. aud by using quicksilvor, which is nearly 13 times as heavy as water, he found the air would support in

high.

IS THIS YOUR NAME?.

Helenu is a Greek name denoting light" or " shining." It has been borne by many famous and lovely women, both as Helena and Helen. The last belonged to Helen of Troy, the wife of Menalaos, King of Sparta, whose beauty was só mar

a clised tube a column about 9in. vellous that a Trojan prince, named Torricell called a contrivance Paris, while a guest at her hus consisting of a tube of quicksilver hand's palace, fell deeply in love supported in this way meter which is made up from two with her and persuaded her to run away with him. This brought about Grek word meaning "weight" and maure. The barometer, the Trojan War, and the famous by the pract height of its column

" baro-

of quicksilver, really measures the scigo of Troy, which Instod toh weight of the atmosphere at any years One very noted Holean whi give time, and the weight of the the daughter of King Coilan, who Atmosphere is some indication of

the weather. That is why we call a built walls around the city of Col barometer a weather-glass.

cheater, making it a fortified cits.

BETTER FOR PROFILE THAN BOWLER.

"The tums are coming

back Women, who have grown tired of wspring bowlers and tricorns, will welcome. the new early spring fashions in bats, paper

hata will catch an even faster The designers expect that the new. than did the last fashions. They predict that by the end of January nearly every woman and girl will be wearing a tam.

The new hats, although following closely the familiar lines of the Scots tan-o'-shanter, will be in two

stylea:

The simple tam in cloth, light straw, or shiny colophane.

The hat lams, which includes a very shallow crown and a brim. Already leaders of Continental social circles are wearing them, and fashion experts sent over the Chan nel by British manufacturers report that the fashion is showing signs of Lapreading rapidly.

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Sister of the Beret.

A few London firms have some of the new hats in stock, but they are not being generally released to West End milliners just yet.

A feature of the new fashion is |that the hats can be placed on the hond with the minimum of trouble, and vary little adjustment with the aid of a mirror is needed. The by- gone style of the bowler and tricoru Is. stated to bave caused woMEI E

the difficulty of tilting the hat at great amount of worry because of an ugle most suitable to the. wearer's face and at the same time convenient so far as the boiture. bas concerned.

One manufacturer told an Even- ing Standard representative that the main reason for the death of

the bowler and tricorn fashions was the difficulty women experienced in wearing them, and because they suited only certain types of pro fles. He added

The tam is really the big sister: of the beret, and has developed From it. Most prople must have noticed boy popular, was the un- adorned beret oven during the 'bowler hat craze.

THE SMILE OF THE we must suffer," cried the Wizard. It was the fast time he ever spoke. SEA PRINCESS.

The next moment, he had been turn- od Into a fish and was caught up in a net, and whisked away into the Upper World, and sold as food in the market, so that he was never 'ston again in the world beneath. the

CHAPTER IX.

(Conclusion,) When the ambile of the Coral Princess. rested upon poor John- dory, a wonderful thing happened..

поля,

Alas," said the old witch, who was still able to sperk, "how I wish In a moment he was no longer aI had never fish, but the most handsome young wicked Gnome of the Cave! When had dealings with that prince you ever saw! So beautiful he told me that, it should fail to was he, that the Coral Frincess fell kill all the young mermen, I should

Easy to Pita

tam can be worn by almost everyone, for in addition to tha oaäo with which it can ba Attod to the hund, it throws the wearer's profile into prominence.

"Both styles of tam will leave half of the head totally uncovered,. Fand, of course, it will entirely

cover the other half.

"Ono sido" of the woman's faco and head, oven part of her neck "Also, will be concealad. It will not harm the car-ring fashion; sonic people say that the wearing of gna our-ring increases the chic of a woman: wearing a smart hat, Ib. will no longer bo a fad to woAT ORG. earring.

The tom in its simple form will

bo worn in, the morning, "and on sporting oocasióna, in material suite able to the event,

The bat-tam will posscas a brim and will be worn in exactly the saigo way as the tam. It is for more formal occasions--the matines and the afternoon shopping tour,

The colours will mostly be plain, but they will be very bright.. The rim of the tam will be in direct contrast to the brown, for instance.

Buch colours as bright emerald, bright orange, bright blue and bright rod will be popular.

There will be an adornments. Diamants brooches have for the moment waned in popularity; but it is extremely likely that they will come back into favour. Feathers. seem to have disappeared alto- gether."

DICK'S WHITE MICE.

Dick loved his little white mice. He had three, and, they lived in a istle cage in the greenhouse. The cage was small and light, so Dick was quite able to carry it about... | This was one reason why he was Bo

fond of the mice; he could take" them about" with him,' '

In the evening, when he need to

his white mior, too, in their little take bis: bread and milk to the guinea pigs hutch, he would take case, Both the guinea-pigs and the mice liked bread and milk, and they

in love with him, just, as the poor suffer the same fate as I wished for all watched Dick until he gave them John-dory had with her.

little..

And there was some one who saw them, I did not believe him." She The mice were very fond of a it all. That was the old sun-witch had but, just finished speaking, bone, too. They would gnaw away As s0011 as she saw what had won the same fate overtook her, for a long time, getting their little teeth sharp and clean. Sometimes happened she gave a wild shriek. ns had overtaken her son, the Dick' gave them a biscuit, instead of Oh," she cried at the top of her wizard and he was never againn bone, and they liked this very voice, "I am changing into a John-

dory. I feel it in my bones: And beard of beneath the seas. you, my son, must be changing as When the King of the Coral well, for that was the agreement Forests what had happened, be

hade with the Gnome." See," she

much. They soon learned to know the look of a biscuit on the xITE when they saw Dick with a bircuit in his fingers.

Dick would often take them to the went on, he has allowed one of cried. Why should we waste

kitchen garden and pull up a the young royal merman to escape, time! We will wed this Prince to carrot for them. Both the mice and a princess has fallen in love daughter, if she and he agree; liked oats, add they used to malos wish him. The old Gnome said it then we will help him to get little store of food in the corner, of should happen if I fail.” "And

their cage Forhaps they thought This kingdom again.” "Yes," cried that some day they might want it!

tho, Queen, for she could

,,see that. the Princeis and the Prince were more than willing "end for thei bell-ringers, and this aball be the wedding-feast of our daughter. We have always wished for a son, and now we shall have one, in this brave and handsome prince,"

There had never been know, such wedding in the Red Cord Forest before here still a beautiful and gentle Bride, never aten a handsome god brave bridegroom; and, an E have heard more than once, they certainly lived happily ever after warda l

(The End).

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