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Didn't we look funny then?

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O you remember the under- wear of twenty years ago? Getting up in the morning was a long process in those days.

A woman did not consider that she was properly dressed unless she wore first a vest, then a chomise or combinations, or perhaps both, under a long corset coming high up into the waist and fastening down the front with a heavy busk.

She was then half dressed. On top of these garments came the new bloomers, probably flency lined,

in drab colours of dark blue, grey, or khaki.

Then there was #

bodice, often with-long sleeves, and a cami- sole trimmed with ribbon and lace.

Next came the underskirt, flounced and rusting, or it might be replaced by the princess petticoat, tucked and embroider

ed.

It is difficult to be-

lieve that these almost

forgotten

Karments

were the general wear

LADY in

"Getting up in the morning wis a

process in those days."

LINGERIE 1917

of only twenty years ago, yet to-day made its first appearance

Miss 1917 was a pioneer who saw one of the greatest dress revolutions ever known.

twenty years ago, "

machine-made producta, looking like handwork, began

be worn.

T

but

were elaborately made with deep flounces. Catalogues of the time describe them 18 "trimmed with embroideries, laces, ribbons, and other garni- tures."

MORE ABOUT

MUSHROOMS

STUFFED

VERY large mush- rooms are very good when stuffed, especially with fish, and they make a good way of using up a few scraps of cooked white fish.

Lightly fry as many peeled mushrooms, large but not large enough to be too coarse, as you want, and heap up on each a mix- lure of their own stalks chopped up and tussed in butter, a tiny bit of minced onion or garlic, the remains of the cold fish finely finked, and a yolk of egg for bind- Ing. Sprinkle with breadcrumbs, pul a dot of butter on each and bake for about a quarter of an hour. Serve on toast or fried bread.

SAVOURY

FRY or grill some mashrooms, and grili some small pieces. of thin streaky bacon rashers.

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Make some little toasts, and on each place ti plece of the bacon, then a mushroom, and then curled soft herring's roc which you have previously poached or Bghtly fried.

Bits To Cut Out

Removing Stains

CHOCOLATE,

Wash with warm water and youp. If si resistant use triso- dium phosphate.

Twenty years ago the "com- to binaire" idea and the fushion | COCOA

for sets had just begun; "eumi- Treat as for chocolate. skirt" and

"cami-com" were COFFEE

alrendy registered trade names. Set of Six

The note of the season was the blending of pale pink and blue. A particularly lovely THE new sets of under- model nightgown in a wild rose shade WAN hemstitched with sky-blue silk.

ANOTHER innovation of

the same

year W29

wear sometimes con- tained as many as five or six pieces; nightgown, chemise, knickers, camisole, and under- skirt were a usual selection.

The fashion began in the

Treat as for chocolate, CREAM

Wash with lukewarm water and soup. It grease remains use am- monia and water.

DYES

Some dyes form the most serious stains of all Try the following Temedies in order:-Wash with warm water and soap. Ammonia, in water. Alcohol or methylated spirit. Permanganate followed by salts of lemon.

These were the First

Do you remember the delicate garments of No red flannel petticoats crepe de Chine in pastel colour- under Inyers and layers of ings of pink, sky blue, and A new Idea "boiling" white for her. A con- lavender, and the even more temporary dress critic laments startling creations in black, that "longeloth or even fine emerald green, and orange? white nainsook and lawn" were They caused a great sehsu- mercerised lawn underwear, the West End, but it soon spread no longer good enough for the tion in their time, and Victorian forerunner of the present-day throughout the country, parti-MILDEW woman of fashion.

matrons prophesied that those artificial silks.

cularly in the munition areas, Perhaps she needed. some who wore them would come to

The moulded petticoat, slips where the spending power waa compensation for the masen- a bad end. line severity

and the tailored precision of to- greatest. of her outer Ribbons and clothes and the utilitarian uni- fashionable. Camisoles of ex- Underskirts,

were day were unthought of then.

though forms she was then wearing. At quisite needlerun lace on finest than in pre-war days, and still that when coloured silken lin- PAINT

Shop windows to-day show shorter all events, lingerie as we know.it net, actually the first of the often in the conventional white, gerie arrived it came to stay.

A B C of Beauty

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stands for

JITTERS. Every one has clays

lace

Questions for Wives

1. Suggest a dinner that can be cooked on a gas-rhig.

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MUSTARDY

Wash with warm water and sonp.

Wash well with warm water and soap and bleach with permangan- ate and salts of lemon. NAIL VARNISH

Dab with a mixture of equal ports of acetone and amyl acetate.

Treat as for nail varnish.

Treatment of Diabetes

YOUNG nervous literary man came to see me the other day. He had the typical symptoms of diabetes: a distressing thirst and a continuous loss of weight although his appetite was enormous,

By Family Doctor

Boils and carbuncles are frequent, Heredity seems to play an import also an intolerable itching of ant part in this disease, Jews ap- akin. The colour of the skin may

2. How do you make tea go further, and how do you make it more pear to be very prone, but men of alter in untreated cases, becoming fragrant?

J. Can you use wholemeal flour for your pastry-making?

ANSWERS

1. K you have the right utensils you can be very ambitious. when people and things are irritat Roost sleak or cutlets with potatoes and parsnips or tomatoes, all together ing and difficult. You live on your in a covered roaster (price dd, and is.). If you want a hot sweet to follow nerves, waiting for a chance of ga. (which would be rather exacting) discard the rouster for a fry-pan and ing off the deep end. These are the make a sweet omelot. days that end in nightmares and sleepless nights and 題 fifteen years hence next day,

the

all races get di more frequently than bronzed and weather beaten. do women.

The lungs may be affected, or it Sometimes very fat people have is probably more correct to say that a transient form of diabetes which the patient cannot throw of a lung clears un with correct dieting. Infection readily. Preumonia and There is a frequent association of tuberculosis are all too frequent in tuberculosis with diabetes. Again, a serious cases of diabetes. person may feel in fair health until The great danger in diabetes is, some acute shock precipitates the of course, como. But the patient weakness in the pancreas and dla who has his regular and carefully betes results.

graduated injection of insulin need The disease presents one of the not fear this. most gratifying results by treatment A diabetic person should try to be

2. Warm the packets of tea before putting into the caddy... Again, with Insulin. Palients often com- as equable and cheerful as possible, face ike when you are making the tea allow the leaves a second or two in the heated plain bitterly that there is not a and avoid any over-strain or undue tespot before you pour on the freshly bolled water, You will then cure, but when life is made toler- mental exertion. He should keep need rather less tea and the brew itself will be more fragrant, Another able and the only restriction is, on reasonably warm and avoid extremes When you come home, Aing off tip for those who like very fragrant téa-put some thinly pared orange diet, then one feels that the patient of temperature. The danger of that

of to-day has your things and put on a neglige. peel into the caddy.

tremendous gain dreaded complaint in elderly patients, Smooth bream on

Finely ground wholemeal flour can be used for short crust pastry over the diabetic of a previous gangrene of the extremities, musi your flushed

not be checks, soak wads of cotton wool in exactly the same way as white flour, but a little more water should be generation.

overlooked. The modern The complications of diabetes are treatment by light and heat does in astringent for your tired eyes, added for the mixing.

the least of its discomforts. much to avert this misery.

draw the curtains and relax coni- pletely, body and soul.

You'll get up in about ten minutes feeling twice as valuable, and when you've had a soothing bath, ending in a loofah friction with violet vine- gar or cau de Cologne, you'll be able.

to smile again.

K stands

for

KNEES. If your are large and unattractive, use a rubber roller or patter to break down the tissues.

A reducing ortam or vinegar will help a lot. Slap them vigorously night and morning too,

3.

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• Look for the

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ERIC

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CHROME FILM

atands for LEGS. The qulckest and simplest; way to got smooth legs is to rub the skin with an inexpensive hair- removing disc every week or so.

If your legs look too thin, try_fil- ing them out with weet almond oil overy night, and do muscle-develop- Ing exercises.

If they're too plump, massage them with a rubber röller or rë- Djuvenator.

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