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The Six Best

Diets I Know. By Dr.

Mary Anthony

Diet for Nervous People

EOPLE who live at a high tensioni, dashing about) from place to place, use up a considerable amount

used is in excess, of the supply the body begins to show the strain in early middle life.

The heart beats faster than normal in the individual who is undergoing a period of physical or mental stress; the breathing is quickened and the blood vessels contracted. After a time this stage is followed by exhaustion from which the nervous system does not at once recover unless complete rest is obtained.

Men who hold responsible positions or whose lives involve worry and, continuous strain may suffer from hardening of the arteries and from high blood pressure.

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**JOHN BETJEMAN takes you on

a tour of the house, shows. how to

you

Rearrange

your room lights

HERE is little pleasanter than the soft light of an oil

The mode of life is of course the main item which calls for attention. If the individual is past middle age, he should try to pass some of his burdens on to younger shoulders. The highly-strung, nervous person should sleep in a quiet airy room and try to get seven lamp when nights are dark.

or eight hours of dreamless rest each night.

Dict, too, plays an important part in bringing the mental and physical condition back to normal.

THE following is a general list-of useful items in Swedish diet systems for those who are over-excitable and whose arteries are hardened; or, who are beginning to feel the stress and strain of existence:

On Rising-One cup of matte tea or fruit juice with one or two

rusks.

Breakfast Oatsoup, tapioca,

fried out porridge, rice grue},

Eggs, tomatoes, radishes. Weak Good Cooking tea, coffee with warm milk, Unsalted butter. All kinds of bread which are tönsted or stale,

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And the friendly hiss of a gas- light is cheerful enough.

been But we have most of us

I am presented with electrle light.

going to advise you about where to put electric light, if you have the inestimable opportunity of arranging where the points are to go yourself, and what to do with existing fillings if these are already in your house.

First have the fuse box and main

By Ambrose Heath

Dinner-Bouillon made from veal or poultry, good bonu broth, shin... of href hrath www broth.. White fish--110°

TIN or a glass of prawns is one of the most useful of all things salmon or eel. Partridge (fri- casse). Fruit: Lemon, oranges, to have in the larder in case of emergency. And yet how few grapes, strawberries, peara, people will do anything more with its contents than make a salad apples, bananas, pineapples and or serve up some prawns on toast.. Here are just a few suggestions peaches.

for their future use;

A Tin of Prawns

Ten-One cup of weak tea (China).

Supper-Bread, butter, cheese,

jam.

Avoid spices. Use no salt.

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cold.

Patties

AKE your own patties or buy them from the pastrycook. Fill them with prawns bound with white sauce, and serve hot or

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Harding Tamps

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control in some convenient place. Bedroom: One lamp on the table where you can get at it without by the bed which can be turned breaking your back or banging your on by a switch on the wall by the head.

bed or else by a switch on the lamp

Next, do not allow naked electric Itself. Get a heavy lomp which does light bulbs that is to say, bulbs not get knocked over when you grope which show the brilliant filaments about in the dark for the switch. they contain--to be exposed.

If you must have bulbs exposed Avoid Eye-catching

see that they are "pearl-or

on the outside; if you already have.

naked bulbs which hang at eye level and hurt your cyes and you do not

Try painting Them

DRAWING ROOM: In the

usual nine-foot high.room,

want to scrap them in favour of pearl a centre light hanging from the cell- whole room is inadvisable. Where- or opal bulbs, you can cover them ing as a general illumination to the with paint.

ever you are, it catches your eyes, and you cannot

the see anybody other side of it.·

Better have a light on a sland I HAVE found that a ten cent

the white tube of Chlaese white reflecting upwards to water colour paint, painted on rather celling. Let the other light or lights thick with a water colour brush, be lamps for reading,

Dining Room: A celling light is hides the glare without lessening the light. The paint lasts a long time on advisable in this room only. The such a bulb provided it is not exposed rays should fall on the table, but not to the weather.

on the faces of those who sit round Light fittings themselves are now it.

Feople do not like to have their little buttered "shells," sprinkle themj quite cheap, and it is safe to say that

the faces shown up when they are eat- with breadcrumbs, a little more butter the less ornamental they are and, if you like, a spoonful of cream, better they will be. Many of them. ing and drinking. and brown them in the oven. Or if vary between fake antique and bogus Another light from the wall over you would preter something a trifle modern. Avold both.

cover them with more sustaining,

with a some white sauce flavoured little anchovy essence, sprinkle with breadcrumbs and brown as before.

IS is perhaps the simplest

THIS

of all. Just put them into:

Eu Coquille Mornay

TREAT as above, but flavour the sauce with grated

cheese, and, if you wish, leave out

the breadcrumbs.

En Coquille Florentino

TN this case, first lay in the bottom of each "shell" a little cooked or tinned spinach, "ar- range the prawns on it, cover them with cheese sauce and brown in the Fricasso

oven.

MAKE

a nice white sauce, and when it is ready put the prawns into it to heat through. At the last moment. bind the sauce with yolk of egg, beaten up with a little lemon julee, and mix freshly chopped parsley into it.

Curried

some

FRY two small chopped - onions in butter, until brown, add a dessert-spoonful of

the sideboard is

is essential in any fair Either have a shade which reflects sized repm. on the ceiling, which in turn throwS

Where you already have celling soft light down on the room, or lights which cannot be moved, have else one designed to throw rays the flex shortened in hall, passages, your book or which can be adjusted to light what you want lighted.

Lighting each Room

and bathroom, and fix a close-fitting light. In bedrooms and drawing room get a transformer fixed on the portable lamp you intend to instal HERE is some detailed advice and deal with the flex as cleverly and

about where to have the unobtrusively as possible. light in different parts of your house. Keep it Cheerful

Hall and Passages Closo up against the ceiling and covered with a tight-fitting pearl shade. Do not have bright lights.

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AND after all that there is a final and Important word

Bathroom and Lavatory: The same of warning. Do not use absorbent as ball and passages. The fitting in colours If you want to have a cheer- the bathroom should be waterproof, ful room. Crange is the most un- or the place where the bulb fits into suitable colour of all as it absorbs the socket from the flex will get all light.

Dark red (which is all right in rusty. Put a light directly above the shaving gloss if you have a point to dining rooms where the light is con- centrated on the table) comes next, Kitchen: Tight-fitting ceiling and dark blue and purple after that. lights again. Two if possible, one No amount of shiny surface will over the table and the other over make an absorbent colour reflect the

Tight. the stove and sink.

spare.

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curry powder and a pinch of salt, Hon.. Treasurers: and stir well together. Add half a pound of tomatoes, cut in quarters, and just enough water to make a thick sauce. Cook for a few minutes, then add the prawns, cover and siminer very gently for a quarter of an' hour. Serve with plainly bolled [rice.

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Hongkong.

November 16, 1930.

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Metronomes.

Piano, Insulators.

Music Cabinots of solid task, polished any shado. Piano Benches with recepticle for music any shado, "Deagon Dinner Chimes.

H.M.V. Portable Gramophonos, Latest Model.

Record Albums, Cases & Carriers.

Albums of Songs for all Voices. Attractively bound. Albums of Music, Classical, Romantic, Light, etc. Records-Parlophone, Rex, Docca, Brunswick, H.M.V.

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