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NEWS FOR

Business Girls

ERE are two problems in business life for the

serious-minded among you to solve..

One comes from a retired business woman who is find- ing her retirement lonely and irksome. The other is from a married woman who is frightened at the prospect of so many girls working in offices aud ignoring the healthy calls of domesticity.

Too much Leisure

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her hands.

und loved E first had worked at her job for Forty-six years

Now she is borrd. She does not like domestic every day of it. work or needlework, and she is finding time hangs heavily on

This problem is one that our men colleagues have been facing for a lon

Ives when they retire from active mental Lime--what to do with their

work, Now bariness women are begluning la experience the enne difficulty. If you have worked with your brain all your life you will not be able to give it up, and remain rontented.

Thin dificulty is entering into the lives of younger business giris who marry. They find that ourwifery, mperially in Hongkong, does not nerupy their bradós sufficiently after the first novelty has worn off.

Home versus Office

THE second problem is one which does no

as yet receive much

The Colony Recently it has been taken up la Ger-

many, where girle are encouraged 19 regard their homes as their career. * Sedentary life is extremely bad for women. Fortuintely, the harm unge towards beauty; the oflice It does in partially offset by the modera worker is paying; mere attention every year ta keeping her body in perfect condition.

New and interesting opening for women should be recorded immediately they are available; hend mistresses of girls' schools should be given, partlen lars of them every half-year, Business girls waste much time and happiness In monotonor jobs without realising the possibilities of more interesting

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Cleaner Typewriters

HERE

A small

ERE is a new way to keep your typewriter keys clean.

hand aller with plastic material is run over the keys eneb niorn- ing. The dirt adheres to it and comes away from the keys leaving them spotless.

The same roller will clean stamp pack effectually, fan b 5 and rels of plastic material 1.

dozen of these rollers would stock quite a large offer,

Half A

To

save

your

Clothes

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GOOD kes for business girl who find that their dresses lose their shupe in the office is to have two skirt parts made to every top. For weekdny dresses, wear one at the offer while sitting all day the other If you make your office dressed you can button on for outdoor wear. yourself, the extra expense will not be nevere,

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Protect your Clothes

Here is an attractive overall to keep your dresses clean when you are in the office. It buttons all the way up the side, so can be slipped on easily over anything.

You can make it from three yards of mate- rial, cut out in one piece (sleeves separate).

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Questions

Housewives

for

Of what is the best pastry board made?

How do you deal with a larder that is inclined to be damp?

3. What is a vegetable charlotte, and

how would you make it?

4. Name the piece of furniture which

like human beings, is subject to. chilk.

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Which is the best way to roast potatoes?

Here are the answers:

1. The best pastry "bourd" is a slab of marble. This keeps the pastry cost and is very easy to clean. 2. Place a jar af time in your lariter and it will keep the air sweet and dr.. A vegetable charlotte is a slentr}} dish composed of various vegetables. Clean and ent to regular sizes pulat ocs, carrots, artichokes, cauliflower, celery or any vrycta- bles in season. Irail them in some good stuck to which a cup of milk has been added, Strain

and cool. Turn into a buttered fireproof dish, andl cover generously with grated cheese little knobs of butter, sprinkle teith bread- crumbs and bake until a galden braien. 4. Ainm will take cold and deteriorate if it atauda ie draught. So for as

should be kept in a warm, even in De

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5. A cutting machine. This may be re- sulated to fer pour oranges thickly or thinly and it may be hired by the day from iron- monger of grocer. 6. Leave the peeird poto- toes in hot water for a quarter of an hour before Tousting thein. This method inprotes the farm and lessens the time required for roasting by one half.

Foundation for an

NE of the most remarkable things in modern times is the increased care and interest taken in the physical education and development of the young. Future generations will reap the benefit of all this attention; no longer will middle age be associated with an increase in weight and a lack of shape in the figure.

It is true, of course, that when exercise is carried to excess there appears to be an enorm- ons amount of fat laid down directly vigorous life ceases, But for the ordinary person who has been trained from infancy to take a reason. abie amount of exercise the habit is bound to persist in later life, so that the fifties will, not mean high blood pres- stre, hardened arteries and un- due increase in weight,'

The British Medical Association has made a report on physical education which should have a tremendous in- fluence on the arrangement of our schools and 'public places for gymnasia and games generally.

The report says that the elemen- tary schools have not been given sadiefent facilities for allowing

the children plenty of flight and air and open--fir exerel

... In the I schools,

public

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Nation

DR. MARY

ANTHONY

shine in which they lived was both food and drink.

In Switzerland, is the clear moun- tain air, where the sun's raya come the other hand, gates that unfit children do not take part through clear, unsullied atmos taletics are pushed to such an in games which would be unsuitable phere, tuberculosis and other pul-

correct that the

muscular for their strength and that under monry diseasca clear-p-rapidly. children should get extra Children and adults who go to Leysin be nourished development of the boy may neglected, and they urge more gym- fool to enable them to reap the bene and other health resorts in Switzer land looking quite thin and wasted fit of regular exercises.

become bright-eyed, brown- Though much has been done in agon

extent

under,

nasium work.

They suggest that physical eduen, tion in schools should be considers recent years to improve the condi- skinnest and St. Germs cannot live three main healings: Formal Liens of the workers there are still er flourish in pure nir, and if many Training, Recreative Training, and many trades where light and air and diseases which mean a lifetime of Instruction in Hygiene. With regard ventilation are all inadequate. Modern, invalidism in this country were treat. to the universities, the committee factories and workshops are designed ed early enough, much pain and anys that physical education is usually to give the maximum of light and suffering would be spared,

At some of the day nurseries on conspicuous by its absence in these air, rest rooms are provided and the centres of higher learning. One ini- recreative side of the workers' life is portant point which is stressed is the not forgotten. But in many small the outskirts of Swiss towns which close relationship between mind and russ some improvement is urgently I visited some years ago the babies body, so that the modern system of necessary the lavatory acumcient their health and strength. A baby accommodn. and toddlers were remarkable for education which trains the mind and tion is frequently negirets the body obviously wrong, and inconvenient;

The Central Council of Recreative rest room where a girl may lie down bright and vigour to a chiki double Physical Training should unite itself for an hour or two, or where a case his age brought up in a smoky in- to the Board of Education and the of faintness may be given a chance dustrial town. Voluntary Societies who have done to rest before undertaking the journey

so much to encourage individual fit to home or hospital.

neas.

there

Is no of nine months was almost equn! in

In England pioneers have utilised open the sunshine, fresh air and surroundings to give many tubercular men and women a new lease of life. Some of these elonies are almost self-supporting, but apart from that,

ONE factor of tremendous the value of Buch work both for

be over.

Their report goes on to state that the best way of promoting health and physique througth physical recreation on a national scale is by co-ordinated

importance for the main prevention and cure of one of our action planned and carried out by

scourges cannot some central authority which draws tenance of health is sun-bathing. modern together existing experience and tickets was known abroad as the estimated.

their knowledge (such as is possessed by "English discase," and though it has

Mothers should insist on

the maximum these bodies just mentioned) into a become far less frequent, there are common pool.

still too many cases of mild rickets children obtaining to be seen at Home. Years ago ob amount of fresh air and exercise both home. Houses, НЕГУСТА pointed out that Italian at school and at

factories...prid workshops children, who were poorly clad, and schools, school who probably got less to eat than should all be planned to give plenty medical English children, never suffered from of Nature's gifts of sunlight and air

so rickets. Obviously the brilliant sun- lo their inhabitants.

regard to WITH

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before it can be useful.

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match

12 Nothing upeet in payment is

beastly

13 This offers concealment for sur-

torial deficiency.

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at the seaside.

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Speed property-owners dislife.

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This animal is partly bird, 30 Dodger. 31 Stick.

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1 Provision for a long time.

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3 Form of nest-herd.

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You pass beneath this when you enter your house,

5 Hurt got from she-ent.

Style of arhitecture.

7. Excuse.

14 Useful garment in the harvest..

10 A flighty prefix. 18 A serpent.

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talks

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result is n kousd one.

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Vessel.

26 One may see trees up this in

"the full.

28 An-essential to the ple-niekur

those canny days.

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