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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1928.
OUR CROSSWORD PUZZLE.
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WOMAN'S WORLD:
FOR OUR LADY READERS.
Household Hints.
AMMONIA AS A CLEANSER.
Ammonia might well be termed the housewifo's friend, for it not only aids in making the house and its contents spotless, but it does ao at a minimum of labour.
. A few drops of ammonin sprinkled on a soft rag and rubbed over the face of the mirror will take away every emear and leavo no amudgy vell behind,
The game method
be may applied to window panes and will result in a clear and shining sur- face of glass.
Electroplate will gleam with a burnished brightness if cleaned with ammonia, Put a pint of hot water into a bowl and add a tea- spoonful of the spirit. Into this dip the articles, dry quickly on a elent cloth, afterwards polishing with chamois leather.
To remove grease spots from clothing, put a drop of the pure spirit over the soiled part, cover with blotting paper, and press with a hot iron for a few minutes. Ivory handled hair brushes which have become alightly dis- coloured should be dipped in warm water to which has been added a Hittle ammonia, one teaspoonful to every pint of water, Rinse, shako
"I
One Minute Interviews.+++ IT'S TOO LATE ·
FOR WOMEN TO
DEVELOP CHARM,
Two Prize Winners In Parisian Show.
Pictured at the right is Mademoiselle Yolande Laffon,
. French actress, wearing the gown which was awarded the
grand prize at the Concours d'Elegance.
Auber, second prize winner.
vigorously, and dry with the Tadej=|=|==|=|==||-|-|-|-|- | bristles downwards as that the am very much opposed to water may drain away from the any invement for the develop ivory. ment of charm in women," says Inez Haynes Irwin, novelist. "In. the first place, they have
Left is Jane
Fruit Pastries. Make some rough puif pastry by 0% margarine Into breaking 2 Humus the size of walnuts, and mix- fing, with 4 uz, flour, into a dough a little very cold water. with Turn on to a floured board, kead slightly, and roll out into a long strip; fold in three; half-turn, and roll out again; repeat this three more times, then roll out very thin. Cut into rounds to fit small patty of Pans (which do not need to be
While they are baking, prépare
Rab nickel silver with a flannel alto-oaked in spirits of ammonia to keep it bright, Theh polish with a gether too much leather. Charm-80 much To clean paint a soft flannel indeed that they should be wetted in a liquid com- fill our daily posed of a quart of warm suds to press with love which add a teaspoonful tronhles.
ammonia. Bust, lyspecks, grime, greased), put a little piece of paper "In the second and smoke all will flee away as if on the top of the pastry and place place. I consider by magic and the surface will ren this some rice. Bake in a fairly charm per se rain the appearance of new paint, quick oven for 15 minutes. Nort '*/ vormi- Alle ammonia added to the Join appendix, to water in which woollens are wash-the Alling. If you have no fresh frit, a small tin of fruit salad- femininity. Lisel will loosen the dirt and will]
For any tinned fruit-can be used. the
Cut into small pieces, and if you appendis. prevent them from shrinking. It Pharm, is all right will also keep will a good colour, have no cream, make up a little as long as, it is prevent laces from fraying, and if gustard powder, and cool by stand- quieszent. Ruded to the water in which then the bowl in cold water. Re- the uomeni it clothes are soalted will not only move pastry cases from tins; shake becomes active, loosen the dirt, but will keep them out rice, and either place the fruit it must come out. white.
on a bed of custard or cover with "OT course Your glassware will sparkle like whipped cream. These pastries
charm, erystal if natural
of literally melt in the mouth. teaspoonful which, Bike
animonia is added to the water in
Orange Jumblers. Grate the rid of an orange and diam. arcasionally oceura, is a which. It is washed. great asset to anybody. But ag- Roses, geraniums, fuchsias, or work it into 2 oz. of castor.sugar; quired, charma, la! It's any plants for indoor blossuming add a squeeze of juice to make it irürhtful test of friendship, for in-are apt to droop after a few days, resemble thick jam.
Place 4 nz, of flour, I oz, eastor stance, to discover that a woman I sprinkled with water to which whom you have always loved and has been added a little ammonia saray, 1 teaspoonful baking powder, adinired has suddenly elected to in the propertion of five or six and a good pinch of salt in a basin, go charming. A friendship may draps of the spirit to every quart and rub in 1 oz. margarine. Mix survive it, but no social derasion of water once a week. they may to a stiff dough with a little milk, ean. It is as bad as going whim he kept in a flourishing condi- and roll out inch in thickness. Spread in the orange and sugar to sical or glamorous.
inch from the cdves; roll up lengthways, sealing the ends as you go along, and cut into thick alleen. Place on a greased baking tray, and bake in a quick oven for 15 min Jutes. Remove; brush over with
castor sugar.
Inez Haynes
Irwin
tion.
a
"No, I think it is too late for 1 Ammonia applied to the wound women to develop charm, or per-after a bee or wasp sting has been haps to redevelop it. They're extracted will give almost instant passed through that period. Who relief. wanis to have the measles again? And then personally, I much pre-
for the knock-down-and-drag-out Emergency Dainties. jure, and sprinkle with
method of the young women of the present day. They are go-
getters. Go-getteriam is as neces Everyone has experienced at
Drop Scones, These are made in a twinkling,
stry a phare to femininity as some time or other the unexpected and are delicious enten hot.
arrival of a visitor when the cup- charm, but a much later one.
scones and
Sleve into a basin 6 oz, four, oz. cornflour, 1 large ten- . "On the other hand, I would board is bare! And the conscien2. welcome any movement to develop tious hostess is trouble and spoonful baking powder, 2 oz. the thought of castor, sugar, and a pinch of salt. are distrait nt
Make a well in the centre; break in charm in men. Some 'men born with charm, but very few presenting stale
cake a egy, and add sufficient mülk to go in for a conscious development. the crumbly remains of
her inopportune, though make a thlok butter: Grease a hot We have no record of their ex-to
When lightly periences; probably most of them not unwelcome, guest. But there girdle or trying pan, and peur on in coloured on one side, turn over, were murdered during the pro-are several dainties which can be tablespoonfuls.,
concocted in half an hour.
and brown the other. cess,"
FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
AFTER TAIS YOU STAY WIZA WE; BOBO-DONT 60 VIANDERING ICFF BY YOURSELF AND GET SCARED BY SOME SNAKE
LIKE YOU DID YESTERDAY!
WHAT WAS THAT?? SA-H-HIM SURE I HEARD SOMETHING!! SA-HAI BE
REAL QUIET!
You'd Run, Too!
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42
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Horizontal.
1 On what largo river la the city!
of "Vienna"?
6 Into what sea does the Yukon
River omply?.
12 Gut up.
13 Digger of cont.
14 Point of compass.
18 To devour.
17 Swing
18 Three-toed sloth,
19 Label.
21 Dogma.
23 Part of vorb to be."
24 Neuter pronoun.
20
At the present time.
27 Abbreviation for "street."
28 Te cover na with an arch.
20 Stain.
31 Upon.
32 Humour.
34 Variant of “n,"
36 To put on.
38 Stepped with a measured trend,
40 Self.
42 Paid publicity.
49 Col.
44 Dower property.
40 Correlative of either..
47 Residences.
49 Voen composition adapted to
sacred music.
61 In what state is "Crater Lako
National Park"? 52 Zest.
Vertical.
1 What famous Italian poet wrote
"The Divine Comedy"? 2 Itegion.
3 Negative. 4 To employ. 5 To throb.
7 To afect
8 To equip.
o Within.
10 Glone.
11 Who was the composer of tho
"Peer Gynt Suite"?
10 Three and soven.
17 Long bench in 'n church,
20 Medieval timio.
22 Ordinary or
er conventional.
23 To make amends.
25 Light brown.
27 Mineral spring,
30 In what state in the largest
sawmill in the world?
32 Soft masA,
To scatter hay.
36 Into what sen does the "Rhino.
River
37 Smell,
empty?
38 A Spanish or Mexican dollar. 39 Cupola of a buildingy
41 Deports,
43 To implore.
J5.Sun.
48 Myself,
60 Seventh-note in scale.
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