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Semolina Sunflowers

THIS makes a very popular

One! sweet for the children. pint milk, 20%, semolina, 202. butter or margarine, 2 table- spoonfuls sugar, vanilla flavour- ing, 1 tin sliced peaches.

Housewife's Scrapbook ·

HERE

ERE is a useful recipe for your scrapbook-Chinese Eggs,

quickly made and tasty dish for light luncheon. Ingredients--3 hard-boiled eggs, 1 raw egg-yolk, 2 teaspoons chopped lina, and cook five minutes. parsley, 11⁄2 teaspoons Temon-juice, 1 onion, 4 tablespoons grated cheese, Add butter, vanilla and sugar and i cup milk, salt, pepper.

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Boil milk. Sprinkle in semo-

atir until melted. Turn nix- Slice the onion and fry in a little fat until brown, but not burnt. Add ture into two wetted sandwich to it the milk and the hard-boiled eggs cut in halves. Stir over the fire

Tur tins, and leave until act.

for a few minutes, being careful not to break up the eggs. Add the beaten out. Arrange sliced peaches on cach to resemble sunflowers, eggyolk, chopped parsley, cheese and seasoning. Place the pan in a large Serve with peach syrup cream one containing boiling water and sik for about eight minutes. Add lemon if liked.

juice and serve hot.

Just 10

minutes

more-

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un-

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merely a matter of spending money wisely.

Good clothes are the butter

on your bread: you still have to soc that the bread's just right.

How often do

Don't sit Back

strong-minded

and do the whole bad 0 thing again. You can't mend

another make-up by putting" on layer; write it off (or, rather, wash it off) and start again.

Honestly, do you do everything You you can for your hands?

should massage them with oil of cream every night to keep them unwrinkled; you should push back the nall cuticle at the same time with an orange stick, so riever gets a grip,

that it

Do you ever put off revarnishing them unt! the polish is chipped and

and you'll be surprised

it

peeling? You should feel guilty for you do,

looks nothing

terrible. off

more

Better take

the difference it makes to the righ

your personal appearance

man

quickly and wear none if time is your trouble.

And keep your nails constantly

ΟΠΟ

Brushing Up

Now about clothes,

a

You

boo, .seem

and

Give your hair a good brush trimmed, otherwise you'll get

two every day; it will keep it sleck and ig-saw effect when help the curls by taking the dust break. (Naturally, it is the broken

ones people will look al.) you come away out. from seeing attractive wemen at When: you've finished making up. theatres and dress shows filled with take a magnifying mirror and good. resolutions about moking strong light (better to give your-

more self a tow shocks than the effort, spending even того

can't brush your clothes time, in choosing your clothes, who is taking you out to dinner).

bluc much, black and dark having your hair done, making up See that your face is powdered too your face. Yet you still feel ton- evenly, and look out for the 1tle particularly. Some of these hairy

ears, stuffs, and face-cloth talisingly for away from that per- dabs that lurk near your fect-in-avery-detail look that film round your nostrils. Worst still positively to reach out and gather stors to wear so easily. powder on your eyelashes and eye- in bits.. If you are rushed in the Don't be deceived; It's not easy. brows gives you a nasty dusty lock. mornings, brush your clothes before

you put them away at night. It comes from never letting up on

the hairs off neck Brush the small things.

Face Yourself

off hems (over collar, the mud PEER at your face from looked at your coat after a muddy the powder off spame And all angles, watching out day?); You may be wearing a for spots of eyeblack that have from under the arms of evening dress that suits you, a strayed from your lashes, rouge that frocks. Brush the inside of hats, successful make-up and be fresh is pateky, lipstick that has sneaked the outside of handbags.

Brush the heels of your shoes from the hairdresser. Don't leave out from the corners of your mouth

(and if they are at all worn down It-at-that; small things, unimportant or on to your teeth, things in themselves, may be apel-

off any stragging eye- one side get them-repaired immedi

less ately-that's another thing that Ing the whole effect. And be sure brows as they appear; much you won't get away with them. It painful than weeding out a forest looks terrible),

See that the seams of your stock- that, human nature being of them later. scems

This truthful light will ahow ings are straight, that your shoes what it is, people have to look for Baws.

you whether your make-up matches, and gloves tone, and snip off any

lip- odd threads that Bro maybe swears. Rouge, At the theatre, for instance, you or

You probably looks at the neck of the stick, and nail polish must belong around.

may think by the you've done all these things woman in front of you and notice to the same family of shade-nover with distaste the bristly bits on the buy them separately.

will be too tired to go out anyway. But work them into your routine! nape of lier neck. doon't know about them herself!

and you will find yourself doing But remember when you go to the.. hairdresser, always to tell him to

you are repowdering them automatically. And next time your face and ace that you notice some one else's slackness run over your neck with the clip-

the powder has caked, you must be you will feel beautifully superior.

Obviously she

Trim

Make a fresh Start

T

Business Efficiency Frock

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ERE is a frock that will make for business efficiency. It has that smart, tailored air which Lhigh executives like their private secretaries to

assume, at any rate during office hours.

There are no fripperies to catch on the filing cabinet when you're reaching for important documents in double quick time.

It is a simple, straightforward style to make up. so that your ner- ves won't be jangled after an evening's dress making with con- sequent ill effects on the following day's typing.

By Susan Gay

And, if you make it now you can ing a short opening on the left side). buy your material at sale prices-so Next stitch, the whole of the bodice you won't need to worry about how top to the lower edges of the yolce- you're going to make both ends and sleeves. Turn in the edges of envelope the front opening, tack and slitch a meet with Friday's pay when you should be reminding the zip fastener from neck to hem. Use that gay plastic type of zipper that bass of an urgent appointment.

you can now get in so many lovely

THIS frock is made colours.

so that you can see

Then deal with the collar, which

what a straightforward job it is, cun be stitched

a dissection of the pattern has been included in Angrave's drawing.

Cut out your material, And don't. be afraid of the pleats. Make tacking thread or tailor's chalk marks where they are to come, then tack them in position and you'll find at the end that they hang beaull- nothing like pleats fully. There's

lo give a good line to a frock, and they are silmming, too,

The sleeves and yoke are cut all in one piece-so that means less stitching than. for sel-in-sleeves. But women who don't feel quite comfortable in plain reglan sleeves will find these both becoming and well atting, for they are cut to shape at the under-arm.

START assembling by stitching the shoulder scams and, the sleeve seams, then neatening and finishing the

Afterwards. stlich the figure- Wrist edges and wrist openings. moulding darts at each side of the

bodice front.

Then fold and tack the pleats on the front and back sections of the bodice, stitch the side seams (leav-

to the dress er made separately so that it can be detached and cleaned frequent- ly.

Fold and lack the the pleats in skirt, front stitch them 10 just above the knees. Stitch the Bide seams, foln bodice and skirt together, neaten the side opening an

d finish with press studs. Turna up the hem and blind-stitch.

Elther make a bell of self-fabric interlined with

fas- And

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