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ideas here to make it more

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More Bananas Better Health

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TEVER eat a green banana unless (a) you cook it first, or (b) you are well seasoned green green apples, gooseberries, green plums, in fact, are pretty green yourself.

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Before cating. examine banana. Has it a Ercen tip? Then spurn it. Is it yellow? Demand a few brown spots. Is it golden and bespeckled with brown? you have your perfect banana.

Such a banana as this has lost its starchiness; it has unbent; it is, as far as the digestion goes, a straight banana. So never malign I. Speak gently and lovingly of the paragon of fruits, for the starch in the green banana turns to glucose in your ripened specimen.

To be more exact, the ripe banana contains 7.1 per cent. of reducing cent. of non- sugars, 11.1 per reducing sugars, 75 per cent, mois- ture, a ifttle fat, a little protein, a little starch, a spattering of vitamins A. B, and C, nicely rounded off by phosphorus, calcium, magnesium, Iron, and copper. There you have the situation in a banana skin.

meal- So no wonder perfect seekers often hit on a banana and natural glass

milk. The of glucose gives energy.

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Known

History

Bu

QUT the banana is no modern fad. Its grand Latin name (banana is African) means "fruit of the wise men. Indian legend says sages of long ago rested in the shade of the banana tree and built up physical and mental energy eating the fruit. But banana fruth is stranger than -banana fiction. The soldiers of Alexander the Great ate bananas in India in 327 B.C., even if we did consider them an exotic and expen- sive luxury here forty years ago.

by Then bananas made history travelling no dried roots to Guinea, to the Canaries, to the West Indies, to Jamaica with settlers and mis- slonaries.

Their present position (as far as we are concerned) is that une firin alone imports more than 40,000,000 bananas a week into this country,

Picking Out A Few THERE are not 40,000,000

cooking is there

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Remember that all the banana time. There are preparing the fruit to suit every age and hour. Bananas are baby's first solid fruit warmed a little, well creamy mashed, and mixed with

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At the breakfast table they com- bine well with fried bacon or sau- sage. Or serve them as a sweet with grapefrult.

Slice three bananas and mix-with- the pulp and juice of two grapefruits. Add castor sugar to

taste. Serve with Shredded Wheat and cream.

Good for A Change

bananas.

VARIETY of attractive blouses are among the most vital neces- sities, for they give new life to any ensemble. For wear with classically tailored suits are white satin cloque blouses, with neat fat bows of black astrakar A bright note is intro- duced by a high-necked blouse of go with the breakfact toast try Marmalade Surprise. You need of sugar, Peel sleeves.

Add the UMMER days in town-hot, petrol- the office, or slip it on over a frilly frock that you yellow matelasse pique with plain twelve bananas, 24 lbs.

and slice the Less fomal are youthful blouses in and the juice of two lemons.

black sugar and leave for 11⁄2 hours. Then smelling streets, and airless offices want to keep fresh.

The suit in the middle of the picture would white organdle circled with make you long for the country. And

Cowers at the

Wide neckline.

lemon juice and cook gently. make you wish, too, you were wearing a do for slightly cooler days. Tailored navy blue lace, and white scalloped pique with put in a preserving pan with the linen skirt and short jacket are worn with a red-stripes in three shades of blue forma little will set in a cold saucer the

for a taffeta marmalade is ready. bathing suit, or at most a sleeves wispy and-white striped shirt in handkerchief linen, fine an unusual design

Pot and cover with and soft. You'll find the linen jacket comes in blouse, while the narrowest of pink

stripes run diagonally across a blue paper that has been brushed both crepe blouse with a novel cross-over sides with white of egg. bodice.

Have bananas and a glass of milk useful for wearing over tennis frocks.

the children, Cocktail Ume demands something in the middle of the morning. If outstanding in the blouse line, and you want to please

with bananas in black and white coats.

frock.

But light-coloured, fragile summer frocks are out of place in dusty offices. As well as being cool, your office clothes must look smart and be practical enough not to get dirty in a day. One way of solving the problem is to keep a light, MORE dressy outfit on the right is for days when you are lunching out or going on to a slip-on frock in the office.

party from the office. Dress is in silk, closely printed with a modern design of lines and squares in red, blue, green on a white background.

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The essence of femininity is seen in a mauve silk muslin blouse, with n frilled Jabot and tiny klik bows encircling the neckline. A collection

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