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Semolina Sunflowers

THIS makes a very popular | One! sweet for the children. pint milk, 20. semolina, 192. lutter or margariuc, 2 table spoonful sugar, vanilla flavour-

ing, i 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 Boil milk. Sprinkle in semo- ling, and cook five minutes. parsley, 1 teaspoons lemon-juice, 1 onton, 4 tablespoons grated cheese, Add butter, vanilla and sugar and 1 cup milk, salt, pepper.

stir until melted. Turn mir- Slice the onion and fry in a Hille fat until brown, but not burnt. Add ture into two wetted sandwic tins, and leave until set,

-out:

to it the milk and the hard-boiled eggs cut in halves. Stir over the fire Turn Arrange sliced peaches-on for a few minutes, being careful not to break up the eggs. Add the beaten euch to resemble sunflowers, egyolk, chopped parsley, cheese and seasoning. Place the pan-in-a-large Serve with peach syrup; ercam one containing boiling water and stir for about eight minutes. Add lemon if liked.

juice and serve hot.

Just 10

minutes

more-

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by any means,

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strong-minded and do the

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Business Efficiency Frock

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ERE is a frock that will make for business efficiency. It has that smart, tailored air which -high exécutives 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, atraightforward style to make up, that your ner- Won't be jangled after an evening's dress- making with con- sequent ill effects on the following

tes

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 yoke- ends and-sleeves. Turn in the edges of you're going

make both- meet with Friday's pay envelope the front opening, tack and stitch a when you should be reminding the zip fastener from neck to hem. Use that gay plastic type of zipper that' boss 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, can be stliched

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 fallor's chalk

or

marks where they are to come, then tack them in position and you'll find at the end that they hang beauti fully. There's nothing like pleats tu give a good line to a frock, and they are slimming, too.

in

less

The sleeves and yoke are cut all

one piece so that means stilching than for set-in-sleeves. But women who don't feel quite comfortable in plali reglan sleeves will find these both becoming and well Alting, for they are cut shape at the under-arm.

to

START assembling by stitching the shoulder aseams and the sleeve seams, then neatening and finishing the wrist edges and wrist openings.

stitch the Agure- Afterwards moulding darts at each side of the

thing again. You can't mend a bad another make-up by putting on layer; write it off (or, rather, wash it off) and start again.

You

or

Honestly, do you do everything you can for, your hands? should massage them with oil Cream every night to keep them unwrinkled; you should push back time the nail cuticle at the same with an orange stick, so that it never gets a grly.

Do you ever put off revarnishing them until the polish is chipped and You peeling? should feel guilty If you do, for nothing

and you'll be surprised.

more Better

looks

terrible. take off

fortunately, merely the difference it makes to the varnish

matter of spending money

wisely.

Good clothes are the butter on your bread: you still have to

see that the bread's just right.

How often do you come from

good more

effort, spending even

your personal appearance

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quickly and wear none I time is your trouble.

And keep your nails constantly

Give your hair good brush trimmed, otherwise you'll get a every day; it will keep it sleck and jig-saw

effect when one or two help the curls by taking the dust break. Naturally, it is the broken

ones people will look at.)

away out.

at

It comes from never letting up on The small things.

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blue

the

and

sceing attractive women When you've finished making up,

Brushing Up theatres and dress shows filled with take a magnifying mirror and

resolutions about making strong Ught (better to give your-

Now about clothes. more self

a few shocks than the man

can't brush your clothes time,

in choosing your clothes, who is taking you out to dinner), having your hair done, making up See that your

face is powdered too much, black and dark your face. Yet you still feel tan- evenly, and look out for the little particularly. Some of these halry too, seern talisingly far away from that per- dabs that lurk near your cars, stuffs, and face-cloth feel-in-every-detail look that im round

your nostrile. Worst still, positively to reach out and gather stars seem to wear so easily.

powder on your eyelashes and eye- in bits. If you are rushed in Don't be deceived; it's not easy, brows gives you a nasty dusty look. mornings, brush your clothes before

you put them away at night. Face Yourself

Brush the hairs off neck

off hems the mud. collar,

(ever DEER at your face from looked at your coat after a muddy апа all angies, walching out day?), the powder off scams You may be wearing a for spots of

eyeblack that have from under the arms of evening hats, dress that suits you, strayed from your lashes, rouge that frocks. Brush the inside of successful make-up and be fresh in patchy, lipstick that has sneaked the cutside of handbags. from the hairdresser,

Don't leave out from the corners of your mouth Brush

the heels of your shoes it at that; small things, unimportant or on to your teeth, a

(and if they are at all worn down things in themselves, may be spoil Trim off any straggling eye- one side gel them repaired immedi ing the whole effect. And be sure brows

that another thing Teas ately-that's

See that the seams of your stock-

seemá

flaws..

Don't sit Back

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as: they appear; much

you won't get away with them. It painful than weeding out a forest looks terrible).

that, human nature being of them later. what it is, people have to look for This truthful light will show ings are straight, that your shoes Do you whether your make-up matches, and gloves tone, and snip off any

that · ore At the theatro, for instance, you or maybe sweara Rouge, Tp odd threads woman in front of you and notice to the same family of shndo-never You may think by the time probably look at the neck of the stick, and nail polish must belong around,

am, you'vas", doño all, these things you with distaste the bristly bits on the buy them separately

will be too tired Obviously she

napo.

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 or made separately so that it can be detached and cleaned frequent- ly.

*

Fold and tack the pleats in the skirt, front stitch them to just above the knees. Stitch the side seams, join bodice and skirt together, neaten the side opening a'n Balsh with press studs. Turn the hem and blind-stitch.

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Either make a belt of self-fabric Interlined with book muslin,, or buy one to match exactly the colour of your zip JÜB- верег. And Anished and ready to wear-for. like all good dress- makers, you will have pressed each Beclion 25 you went along,

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