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Do you want to

PUT ON WEIGHT

or ..

TAKE IT OFF?

[WO friends, Elizabeth and Margaret, spent Christmas with us. My family

There's a scientific,

long since adopted them for aunts non-fad, pleasant way of doing either. Try it out and

how it see

and gave them the unfortunate nicknames of Skinny Lizzy and Plump Peggy.

When I said this was most undignified, the children answered, "Ch, all right then-Lean Ellia and Corpulent Margaret, how's that?"

I saw there was no doing anything with the family. But Elizabeth and Margaret have put matters right themselves.

Si

the

They Are somewhere thirties; I never can remember quite where, nor which is the elder of the two. They lend a norinally busy life, Margaret running the house and Elizabeth doing a secretarial job.

They didn't believe It

VESTERDAY I had a letter from Elizabeth. She was MORTY because Margaret had bor- rowed her new jumper and gone off to town in it. The family cried with one accord. "It len't true, it can't be true. Plump Peggy just couldn't get Into Skinny Lizzy's jumper."

But an accompanying enapshot anger was proved that Elizabeth's

only assumed to cover a justifiablo pride. Elizabeth is no longer skinny. nar la Margaret too plump.

One got thin,

the other Fat

ELIZABETH is

tall, and

Margaret rather dumpy. They like the same things to eat in general, have most of their meals and eat about the same

together,

amount.

The dismaying position al Christ- man was that Elizabeth was getting thinner and thinner, while Margaret Hot falter and falter. And all the time they were eating twin meals. What were they to do about it?

Elizabeth didn't do anything at She first. Margaret did, though. sald sweepingly, "I shall cut out potatoes, milk, and bread because

works

A typical day's diet:

THIN ONE HAS

Cereal with milk. Egg and bacon White colce

Cup of chocolate.

BOTH HAVE

BREAKFAST Orange juice. Marinalade. Bread and butter.

FAT ONE HAS

No cereal.

Boiled egg

Tea, milk and sugar.

MID-MORNING

Nothing

LUNCHEON Herring and sauce.

Sauré potatoes.

Ice cream.

TEA

Buttered toast.

Plum cake.

Tea, milk and sugar,

or lemon.

Thick soup.

į

DINNER

Liver and kidney with

nice.

A dish of vegetables or

salad.

Fruit and cream.

Collee.

drink at

Hot mill

bedtime.

Bread and batter,

No cakes or pastries.

But she was starving, not dletlifg: practical hint, and you'd better for- She wasn't supplying even a third get it.

of the calories she used. She got that haggard look.

They wero

soon at their jobs again, but unfortunately as fat and as thin as ever.

Then, because she lacked vita- mins and minerals to withstand in-

Then it was, about the end of all rich foods because they are bad fection, she went down badly with

that Margaret deelded for one anyway."

influenza. Elizabeth, always under- February, nourished, caught it from her. All something scientifle must be done work was brought to a standstill. I about It Examination by colori

that per meter showed that she took in more than she used up, Then blush when I remember ed to make this tragedy.

She began to cat minute vegetarian incals. She did lose weight. About

calories

HOT TIFFINS

for the COLD

WEATHER

VERY

frequently,

ano

oven

neglects to make reasonable preparation for a mid- day meal.

The summer luncheon of salatis and other suitable cold food is al- ways easily prepared, but suitable winter dishes require come thought beforehand. Full use can always be left-over sauces, gravles, and vege- tables. The preparation of these dishes does not necessarily. Rican meal preparations.

Eggs, milk, grains, cheese, vege- tables and sauces are all suitable to use in combination.

anuce,

Asparagus Au Gratin. Ingredients: 14 pint thick white Frated 3 tablespoons dry cheese, 1 tin asparagus tips, bread- crumbs and little butter.

casserole Method: Grease, n pledish, small. Place the asparogua in it. Mix half of the cheese with the hot sauce; pour this ever the remainder al asparagus. Mix the

or

the cheese, with 1 tablespoon fine crumbs and sprinkle this ever the top. Add a few pieces of butter und bake in a steady oven to brown alightly on top. This may also be prepared in individual scallop shells

preferred.

H

ce and Tomatoca Ingredients: 2 or 3 ripe tomatoes, rlee, i eschalot, 1 1 cupful cooked teaspoon chopped parsley, salt and pepper, I dessertspoon butter, 1 tablespoon grated cheese,

Method: Scald and skin tomatoes and cut them into slices. Grense a small piedish with a little butter. Flace the sliced tomato and cooked rice in layers, with a little chopped parsley and chopped eschalot be- tween the layers, having rice for the last layer. Sprinkle thickly with the grated cheese; add a little butter, and cook in a fairly quick oven for about 20 minutes.

Tomato sauce may be substituted for tomatoes. Serve very hot.

Rice and Tomato Kedgerec Ingredients: 1 cupful cooked rice, 2 or 3 tomatoes, 2 eschalots or tablespoon chopped onion, 1 ten- 1 dessert- spoon chopped parsley, spoon butter, 1 tablespoon grated cheese, salt and pepper to taste.

Method: Scald and skin tomatoca and cut them into slices. Melt but- ter in saucepan and try the minced eschalot or onlon for five minutes without browning. Add tomato and cook until tender. Sur into it the cooked rice and stir until thoroughly heated. Add the paraley and pile In an entree dish. Sprinkle with the grated cheese and serve very hol.

Casserole of Bags Ingredients: 14 pint white sauce or roure left from a fricassee, 6 hard- boiled eggs, 1 tablespoon crumbs, 1 dessertspoon cheese, teaspoon butter.

Method: Cut hard-boiled CZEN either into 4 sections or into thick a casserole dish (glass). Arrange the sections or slices. Grease slice of egg in the dish. Pour over them the white sauce, sprinkle with crumbs and cheese. Add a little oven for about 15 minutes or until slightly brown on top. Serve hot.

Vegetable Pic..

they are starchy and fattening, and five pounds in the very first week. hans the teasing of my family help she learned that it is safe and easy butter to the top and bake in a hot

WHEN YOUR CHILD REBELS

at taking a dis. agreeable tasting laxative, don't force her to take it Medical opinion agrees that "forcing"is bad for her sen. sitive system, both physi- cally and mentally.Children take Castoria willingly... they like its mid, pleasari taste. It's gentle in action, 100,

THE CHILDREN'S LAXATIVE

CASTORIA,

COUNT THE "TELEGRAPHS" EVERYWHERE

Building them

up Again

【OWEVER, a good

HOV

to shed a pound a week of unwant- ed fat by eating 600 less calories a day.

It works

doctor either Way

soon had them on their

them up to health.

At first they had

fect, and concentrated on building ELIZABETH took up the too, because it acts no appetite. Now there's a lot of the other way just as well; you can talk about appetite being a guide to gain a pound a week by eating 500

calories a day more. caling.

their chart gives a day in The

of transition from Skinny Plumn Penny to the an appetite Shapely Sisters. You will see that for cream bung almost amounting the daily round was not much alter-, to greed, but after her starvation ed. diet she couldn't even fancy a cream

Now they are borrowing! each bun, she stopped wanting food at all.

other's Jumpers there is no need to strict, Margaret en- Appetite had to be tempted by quite kn vitamin B, takten both in a concen- vs the ocensional cream bun, and trate and a natural form. They Elizabeth does not always have a were advised to have as much egg mid-morning drink, though it is re yolk, liver, hearts, kidneys, whole- cognised. that she needs more cal- meal cereals, beans, peas, and nuts ories than Margaret. as possible,

Some faddists say you should only eat when you are hungry, and then nerlod what and as much

as you like, T Margaret has normally

1

Ingredients: pint of white Enuce, good cupful of cooked vegetables, such as a mixture of peas, cauli- flower, large diced pieces of potato,

.or bread-crumbs;

sliced carrot, or any vegetable used a little pastry grated cheese.

Method: Mix the vegetables in the sauce, place in a greased glass pledish. Cut the pastry into stripe and twist them. Arrange in a lat- tice pattern on top of the dish, and halce in a quiete oven, until the pos try is crisp. Serve hot as a luncheon dish. Instead of. using the pastry, the pie may covered with a mix-

ture of crumbs and cheese, with a little salt and cayenne mixed, Add a little butter to the top and bake in a hot oven until a pale fawn on top.

Venetable Kednerce Ingredients: 1 breakfast cup cook- ed rice, 1 oz. Butter, 1 onion, 2 toma- of any cooked cold toes, cupful vegetable, 1 teaspoon chopped pars- ley.

Method: Scaid, skin, and slice the tomatoes. Mince onion, melt butter in saucepan. Add onion and fry These averages allow for an In- three minutes without browning. of 20 pounds between the Add tomatoes and fry until soft. Stir CO Margaret gave up vece- crease

vegetables ages of 20 and 60, because they re- in rice and

and beat with fork, until quite tarianism. She was wise. card middle-ned spread as normal occasionally

hot. Flavour to taste. Pile in a deep covered entree dish and with chopped parsley. Serve hot.

Back to a meat Diet

They are weighed every work, and remember to deduct something from the average given as correct for their helghts and years.

I am told cannibalism is the best instead of iniquitous. health-giving diet, and missionary,

of whatever sect, the finest food of all. But this, I'm afraid, is an un-

SALESMAN SAM

Rose Hodgson. sprinkle

Success!

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1 Saying.

ACROSS

3 Dressed up, with A.1. red cap

on, all anyhow.

C Put some life into this-in a

team, if you like.

-9-This-sprite-is-more-than-right-

in its spelling.

10 Travel like a boop.

11 The farmer does what Lize

shopkeeper Alls.

12 Staik

16 Withers in the Salisbury neigh-

bourhood.

17 The writer who while giving

pleasure to millions made Ned sick.

18 Tubers which are not a synonym,

for hogsheads.

21 A great emptiness to cut. 22 Shade of note..

24 Kural places, but I

infused with ire they spring to urros. 23 Fail-all the year round. 20 The dignitary is precious late

in the out-skirts,

20 Take the brute in and make it

drive the engine.

30 Part of this slow vehicle may he made to move swiftly cnough,

31 Scottish cattle.

DOWN

乩

1 Covers nuny

night, and partly by cur, dorling. (Hyphen,

5, 0.)

2 A trife low, as

don't you think.

3 One fish in another,

gathering,

4 Propositon put before a spins-

ter.

3 This nee will be on top of the

pack.

16

8 What Christopher Robin wears

from day to day.

7 Dorothy's one good point?

Hollow? I should think noll

to get the

13 One's best work:

betler -of-a-bit.

14 Onc

Unc

of the girls in

Forsyte Saga,"

15 Touch up.

10

20

The

Look quickly at this Continental

citizen. He mght be gone, sec?

ford,

21 A morning measure? The fuld

is not beer.

23 The German haystack for the

crane.

20 Turn it to run.

27 Make it so, and recall Robinson. 28 Accommodates part of the con-

gregation.

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