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This is the time of the year when it's so useful to know how to make people comfort- able during con- valescence

NONVALESCENCE is often the most tiresome part of an illness. A little skill can make it less tiresome.

Choosing the right type of room is of the utmost importance. The ideal is a bright, cheer- ful room, gay with flowers, attractive, clean cur- tains at the windows arranged so is not to obstruct the view.

The furniture should be so placed that the bed and bedside table can be drawn close to the their window during the day, and returned to normal positions for the night.

The Mirror Trick

WHOULD it be impossible to see out of

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the window from the bed, a mirror can be placed to reflect the view of either

garden or street,

All surplus furniture should be removed to give an air of spaciousness to the room, and those family ornaments which we are too weak willed to destroy should be taken away and replaced by the treasured posses-

slons of the convales-,

cent.

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Put a flre in the room

can, It

If you looks (as well as feels) cosy.

A single bed with comfortable inaitress,

an under blanket and

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securely tucked in

lower sheet is essential. An additional long narrow sheet, known as a draw-sheet, is useful.

The top edge of this

rests under the pillows

and is firmly tucked in

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Bed/in day

Bad Here at night

GETTING BETTER

the sides. After each meal

it

can be drawn through, thus remov-

ing any crumbs and keeping the bed fresh and clean.

Pillow Support

head.

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HE pillows, four in num- ber, are arranged to sup- port the back, neck and

The first lies across the bed, the next two are arranged diagonally from the centre of the first pillow beri, and towards the sides of the

the fourth is placed behind the

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MUSHROOMS

ON YOUR

MENU

REJUVENATION

RECIPES

FOR WINTER

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T this time of year cooks are apt to com- plain about the dull old veget- ables that are always with us.

But there is no reason why we should be mournful about it. Even old vegetables are full of possibilities. We must not des- pise them.

the

This is the opportunity for cook to show her ingenuity and her technique; with a tile imagination, amall amount of trouble and a great deal of seasoning she can turn the old vegetables into delicious dishes.

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But she must prepare them well.

the carrots, the turnips, the par snips are large and tough, she must use only the best parts, sacrificing, for instance, the hard core of the thick skin of the parsnips, the Turnips, the green inside of the car- rots.

A few moments of parboiling will come to the rescue, and she has the vegetables, shaped, softened, rendy for the finishing touch which will make some of them even good enough for a separate vegetable dish, I hope, the following recipes will

show.

POTATOES EN GATEAU.

TAKE

some old potatoes, bolled and cold; any kind will do for this. Cut them across in slices.

Put in a hot frying pan a good slice- of butter; when it is at the foaming FEW years ago we stage, put in the potatoes; stason should never have well with salt and pepper.. thought that mush-

Cook on a moderate fire, shaking rooms could be so and stirring: it does not matter if must be free In the pan, and stick tively and see that it is really hot easily obtained as they are to you break them in doing so, but they

now a considerable togethe rso as to form a whole. un-day, and or really cold. Nothing is so palatable as lukewarm food.

industry in producing them has grown up.

lea, or meat extracts should be the main diet iterna. Serve food tire-

Add more bulter if necessary. It the potatoes make a kind of rustling noise when the pan is shaken, it From the signs in the shop means that the cake is nicely brown- TRAY is exasperatingly windows, the new season's crop ed.

What to

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This way of arranging pillows. makes for comfort..

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shoulders, neck, and head. The top water bottle, too, is a great com- bedclothes are warm, Hght. and secure, but not tucked in tightly fort.

enough to restrict movement.

When the bed is remade for the

This can be done by folding the night only the usual one or two top corners of each blanket about pillows are needed,"

12 inches towards the centre of the

bed, turning down the top edge of

The bedside table should hold a

ear

di cult to balance on should be beginning, and now Place a hot, flat serving dish on the knees. A bed-table is the time for a few recipes. the pan and turn them out. You

have

is very much better.

a cake made of slices of inside Clothes depend entirely the

on

To my mind there is no better potatoes well buttered, soft personal taste of the wearer. It is way of cooking mushrooms, either and at the same time crisp outside. advisable, however, to have a loose wild or artificially, grown, than the Atting; attractive pair of pyjamas or first give below. This is made POTATOES

of glass warm Bed-jacket possible by the invention nightgown, a with long sleeves, and a dressing ovenware; for the glass does not give VILLAGEOISE gown at hand.

the mushrooms any flavour but their own delicate' one, and cooked in this way, even forced ones may some- times taste quite like those from our autumn felds.

Choice

of

Visitors

right YOMPANY_of_the

kind makes a lot of dif-

Or One

two ference, -

PUT in

an

earthenware cocotte one piece of car- Trol, one small onion and a bouquet of DEEL the mushrooms thyme, bayleaf and parsley, which you add after you have: 'cooked the and cut off the stalk onion and carrot in butter for a few

little butter in a glass casserole,

PEEL

the blanket about eight inches and jug of fruit juice, a clean glass, a people who stay for not more than level with the gills. Melt a very minutes.

a bowl of an hour at a time for preference. syphon of soda water,

the top sheet about 12 inches.

Put in then pound of potatoes, fresh fruit (avoid any that smell The world's self-appointed martyrs

the aggressively hearty types which must be of a size large cut in thin slices and seasoned with The sides of the blanket can then strongly), a clean knife and plate, and be tucked in firmly without causing a reading lamp stationery, and should be prohibited from entering enough to contain all the mush-salt and pepper. Add water level with the potatoes, bring to the boil rooms, so that each is flat on the and let it simmer, with the lid on, the occupant to feel like a mummy penell. It is so comfortable to have uny slek or convalescent room. in a case.

bottom.

1 the potatoes are soft. Remove the carrot, the onion and Arrange the mushrooms on the

within all these necessities reach of the bed.

casy

An elderdown is useful for pre- viding extra warmth with a mini- mur of extra weight. A hot soups, steamed fish, chicken, beef-

Food: Milk, bread, butter, eggs, Why Be A Grouch? bottom, pecled sides downwards, the bouquet, and serve in the cocotte.

TRY THESE AT THE

CHILDREN'S PARTY

When they are nearly done, add Sensitive Matches

one slice of lean ham cut in small ATCHES, like children, shun dice, chopped parsley, and salt and

pepper. Serve at once, soap and are attracted to

CARROTS AT sugar.

Try it.

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Take a largish bowlful of LA CREME

water and on the surface arrange

about a dozen matches, star-

wise. Sharpon a piece of soap

HAVE some carrots, shaped

as described before, and

to a point and dip it into the ball then in salted water.

water at the contre of this "set When they piece."

done, make tablespoonful

are soft and nearly

a

of

a while rout with

of flour and one

The matches will disperse to the butler. Add a glass of hot milk, side of the bowl.

Now, having removed, the soap, hold a piece of sugar in the water in the centre of the bowl. The matches will flock round it.

To-day's Unbender

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Get any member of the party to

sland against the wall, both heels

pressed against the skirting board.

grated nutmeg, salt and pepper, bring to the boil and let the sauce thicken awhile.

Add your carrots (well drained), and a tablespoonful or two of cream, and cook a few minutes more,

PUREE OF TURNIPS

TAVING peeled the turnips H

us explained, boil them in

Put down a piece of paper on the salted water. When they are per- floor within easy reach of him and fectly soft, mush them well with a

ask him to see if he can bend over fork and pass them through a sleve, and pick it up without removing his Then heels from the aicirting board.

add

about, one third of Bechamel sauce; whip well, and put

He'll say "That's easy!" but will in a good deal of pepper.

find it impossible,

Balloon Gliding

and of

Coolt a few minutes more finish by adding a good plece butter (off the dire). This is parti

Played by gently propelling an in- cularly good with mutton.

flated balloon along a given space by

tapping it with a walking-stice at LEEKS GRATINEES

final resting place is a waste-paper

basket some distance away. The TAKE the white part of some players are divided into two teams

lecks-if too large cut

of equal size. The team having the them in two lengthways-and, boll lowest number of forfeits wins.

Each player is allowed one minute

them.in salted water till soft. ·Drain well.

cheese,

to place the balloon in the basket. Put them in a buttered fireproof No player must touch the balloon dish, sprinkle with grated with his hand, and the balloon must dispose a few small pieces of butter not touch the floor. A forfeit is hero, and there, and brown in the given for either of these offences, oven or under, the grill.

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VEGETABLES

of in

No matter how healthy a person sprinkle them very lightly with sal may be, there are times when he feels and a little pepper, and cools them RACOUT OF grouchy and miserable. Usually this with the ld on in a slow oven until Is attributable to something eaten they are done. It is a little dificult which has upset the stomach.

to say for just how long, for this One of the surest ways of quickly depends on the size of the mush-

cooked THIS is made with the best getting rid of the Source

of the rooms; but when they are

parts of carrots and tur- trouble is to take a dose of Pinkettes. (say, in twenty minutes to half an These tiny laxative pills cleanse the hour), they will still be a little Brm, nips cut in small pieces, slices a few potatoes, also food tract of the offending substances their gills will still be separated and onion and

prevent the accumulation of not blackened and sodden us they so smali pleces. waste matter.

often are when fried.

Put all these in a casserole with a Cook, tossing buttered smail piece of butter. Arrange them then on toast, ar better still, eat them

as them for a few minutes, then add meat stock almost level and let the whole thing cook slowly, with the lid on, for quite an hour.

and

In cases of constipation, Ilverish- ess, billousness, sick headaches, bad breath, akin trouble such as acne, pimples and bpils, and for the rellef of piles, there is nothing more quickly effective than Pinkettes. Chemists everywhere sell this all-vegetable laxative.

PINKETTES KEEP YOU CHEERY AND WELL.

MakeYour Figure ATTRACTIVE

It is unwanted wautos that maka you awkward and low on your teat it in thawa wastes that make you tire easily and took older than you are. You can get rid of them the Bonkar way, Bonitors helps you to health and trimness by stimulat ing body action, getting rid of in- wanted polsonous waste matter, Start the Bonkora treatment. Feel getting mors active, Sea becoming trim and attrac- five, and cutting TEARS att your figure.

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they are.

If you do not wont to thicken the quld that has come from them and

Feel with a sharp knife if the use it as a sauce with them, keep it carefully as it will be valuable vegetables are really soft before. you are making a stew or a mince, serving. 10 give that mushroomy favour which is so good!

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FRICASSEE

PARSNIPS SAUTEES

MAKE round or oblong

pieces out of best part of TEW 4 pound of the parsnips. Boll them till almost

rooms in two ounces of butter drained, in butter in a pan. until they are

They should be nicely browned. dong but not browned, thicken with a table-Sprinkle with salt, and serve. spoonful of flour and season with salt, pepper and touch of nutmeg and a sprinkling of freshly chop ped parsley.

Break the yolk of an egg (or two)

in a basin and mix with it o gilt,

FRICASSEE OF CARROTS ·

CUT olive-shaped

pleces, more or less the same size, or co of cream or cream and milk. out of the best parts of old carros

and Add a squeeze of lemon juice and a Boil them for a few minutes tiny touch of cayenne pepper, add to drain well. the mushrooms and, being careful

Melt a piece of butter in a pan, not to let the fricassee boll but still keeping, it very hot, stir well to-put in the carrots, and fry

fairly slowly. gether until the sauce thickens.

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