1937-07-26 — Page 2

Points to look out for:

1 Brush his hat.

2 Mend his frayed buttonholes.

3 Press his bulging pockets.

4 Renew his worn cuffs.

5 Press his baggy trousers.

His Case Was Desperate.

Young Man's Distressed Blate.

"I was reduced to such a state

through anaemia and neurasthenia

that my case was desperate," states |

Mr. W. 4. Ingram, of 15, Leyburne,

Give your husband

Spring Clean

F your husband is not as well groomed as he should be, it is largely your

fault.

a

alternately, and cleaned with quality polish,

it

KEEPING FOOD FRESH

IF you experience trouble in keep- ing food fresh during the hot weather, try these short cuts. They will save you many shllings in the course of a year.

good. To keep milk fresh on hot days

Brown shoes can be toned up mixing a tablespoonful of milk with dessertspoonful, of methylated spirit, and applying this with a riece of flannel, ruting the leather well. After a tow ny,rates ine shoes can be cienned in the orglary why Dress shoes

with olive Oil

PATENT leather evening shoes when not in use should be covered with a thin film of vaseline; weekly dressing of olive oil will

a

prevent cracks or make existing ones much less obvious.

The wife who undertakes to be her

An occasional wipe over with a husband's valet, and valets him well, has cloth dipped in milk is excellent, and found one of the best ways of helping him in his an especinity brilliant polish can be "given by applying white of egg and

then rubbing with a soft cloth.

career.

It isn't the possession of a lot of new clothes that gives a man a well-dressed look, but the care he takes of the clothes he has.

Ties can be kept fresh in this way. Fill a glass jar with very hot water, and then wind it Suppose a man, has three sults. Abolish the "best" damp the tie, suit idea. Bring the best suit into regular use, so that tightly round the hot jar.. This will It is worn on alternate days with the second suit, Clothes, smooth out the creases without spoli- all the better for regular rest Ing the tic. well as shoes, gre

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periods.

The third suit, sponged and pressed, and sent to the tailor for invisible mending if necessary, can probably be employed to save the other suits on wet days.

The cure for a husband who'is careless with his clothes is a series

of presents. The first of these is

Give each sult a thorough overhaul once a fortnight. trouser-press, into which the trousers A good hard brush comes first, and then took over it for should go as soon as they are taken grease spots and other marks. A clean rog dipped in off. animonia water will usually remove them, but if it won't try turpentine or petrol.

The best way

in with Ties

Tar marks which often get on to the hems of trousers can be taken uut by rubbing with a rag soaked eucalyptus oll.

DO YOU LIKE

How to press

!

do not leave it corked or capped in bottles; the air should be let in, or the milk will our quickly. Cover the open neck of the jug or bolile with an upturned saucer and then store the jug in a wooden box filled. with clean suwdust or chaff. Keep In a cool, airy place, and the milk will seldom "turn" even in very hot weather.

Uncooked ment left to lie in its own juice quickly taints during the warmer days. But if you keep your meat lung it will keep better. Do

not stick the book directly into the ment, however, Stip the Joint Into n-thin muslin ung rinsed out in vine- par, then attach the metal hook to

the bag top and suspend,

If, as sometimes happens, butter has acquired a slight rancid taste during the hot weather, melt it and then skim, afterwards leaving a piece minutes. The disegrecable of lightly toasted bread in it for a few taste is thus taken out..

Where the butter is too far gone for this, add a teaspoonful of honey to each halfpound, melting the butter first and then skimming it. When will have lost its disagreeable taste and flavour. cool the butter

Keeping Bread Soft

for

When bread is to be kept several days during the hot weather. place half an apple in the bread-pan.)

moisture from the apple is The absorbed by the bread, which is then kept moist and fresh.

Greens and vegetables may he kept fresh during the holtest spell by the following methods, which entail little or

or no additional expense: For example, when fettuces lose ATIE-HOLDER is the next on their crispness due to the heat, if you add a pinch of bornx to the water the list, and this, screwed on in which the lettuces are being soak- the inside of the wardrobe, will noted it will make them delightfully only keep his ties in perfect condi- crisp and fresh for table use.

Lettuces, beetroot, and carrots ilme it their WHEN the suit is clean, press tion, but will enable him to choose

I will keep for a long Wit with a very damp cloth the right one in a second, thus pre-roots are immersed in a couple of and a hot iron. If the pressing is done on a board without an ironing venting many a tumbled drawer. cloth it will be twice us effective. Pay particular

it Successfully

trouser creases,

press

attention to the down the

maa can

inches of water in a shallow dish Plenty of padded coat hangers and and the water renewed every day.

To keep cauliflower fresh, split the shoe trees are other necessities, and stem in four, slip a string around it. laps, and smooth over any creased on his next birthday you might glve hang up the flower downwards, and con-wet the cut stalk every day with parts, being careful to keep the cloth him one of those Ingenious

water. which traptions on

If Ash cannot be cooked the same really damp.

day keep it fresh this way:-Put the Ash in a large basin and pour over a mixture of salt and water, one lea There are shoulders for the cont,cupful of salt to one quart of water, shelt for his underclothes, and a Cover the fish completely and it will tray for his loose change and other keep quite fresh. oddments.

At the first sign of fraying at cuff arrange his clothes us he takes them or trousers hem, a suit should be sent off at night, back to the tailor, who will make

it just like new. Buttonholes can be made to last twice as long by means

of n well-timed stitch,

Keep hats

well Brushed

MEN

Ivic P. Holden.

COLOUR REMINDERS

TEN'S hals need regular at- tention. A bowler seldom

tween warm and cool colours. needs more than a good brushing, but

Choose warin tints for a north room, that catches It needs it every day. A weekly rub

THERE is no possibility of women cool tints for a room with warm bran or ordinary ground wearing anything drab on the south sunshine. rice will be sufficient for felt hats.

and look Shoes will last longer twice as well if kept on trees, worn

Gay Beach Wear TAKE heed of the difference be-

SHORTCAKE?

beach this season. Even if swim- in deadly ming is hobby taken earnest, the swimming suit must be of the most up-to-date design. One

Yellow

is the colour nearest to It light. seems cheerful, even in the

weather. dullest

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can be frivolous, however, with re-light-coloured woodwork. For in-00010 gard to accessories. Little playsuits, crensing the apparent size of a limit

ed space, walls. which

making the woodwork crumple and retain their freshness throughout, are seen match the

never

is the lure of blue. Truly n For the dough talic two cupfuls in bright, daisy-patterned linen and self-raising four, half teacupful cotton, Divided skirts in heavy blue-and-white scheme is one of the butter, pinch of salt,

white linen have brilliantly-striped most satisfactory. Yet, a word of Work the butter well into the blouse tops, or are worn with star warning is in order; there can be lon flour and molsten with enough milk (dutted waistcoats. to make a dough you con handle,

Try this with Strawberries

TRAWBERRY

shortcake,

Street, Bradford, England, "Last Sbeing an American sweet, is served la, split it carefully, and well event of a storm

October began to suffer from diz

ziness, and when outdoors my head difficult to get here.

was in

a whirl that I could not such

appetite, I had no

my face grew pale, and I was com-authentic strawberry shortcake, and large scone.

walk straight.

pletely devoid of energy,

This is the way to make it, the

don't let

anybody persuade you to Once you have try out imitations.

I became

work. The doctor said that I was suffering from anaemia and neuras-experiment further.

the

Jet the juice run all over the dish.

news

in the

masses.

much. It is best to use 1 with a light hand, and to give it much white Newest of all beach wear are for a foll. You may even get the Blatten it out in a round shape so that hooded capes to protect the wearer happiest results by adding to it

Into it will go

an ver from the sun, the wind, and the touch of pale yellow or of soft rose- ordinary shallow layer |

most amusing. cape in pink.

Greys and buffs are the foils and tin. Bake in the rain. One

colours. While we oven for about twenty-dusty pink olled slike has little black

uni!l umbrellas embroidered all over it neutrals among ive minutes, or

This ground

length cape could be may know this, we do not always It is nicely browned.

worn equally well for Ascot where atiilse that knowledge

Red, on the other hand, while it prove a blessing Turn it on to the dish it is to be

speaks for vitality, is aggressive. It butter the insides ns you would a

Another atirnclive cape is made may easily make a room seem rest- Jess. Seldom should it be used in in skyblue towelling and the hood is full strength, almost never in large Now over the lower half gener-lined with tomato-coloured silk. It

Another fact about these fascinat- contrasts effectively with a navy so bad that I had to give up my tents one, you should not want to ously spoon your strawberries and blue bathing suit having one of the

juice, as much as you can get on new circular skirts. Also in the ing things called colours. They will warmth, not only in making your are beach hats shaped like Vary not only by suggesting cold and

straws of

rather than *pacious. rooms seem sunshades. In For six people-

being it the other half of the bright hue, they

the thenia, and might collapse In

Take 2lbs. of ripe red berries-- Put on

cramped, they vary also in Put into

miniature street.

small ones are best.

cupful of castor sugar sene, and serve at once while still shoulders and Dr.busin with a to try

who use the room. handle standing up from the centre more or less "becoming" to the people deckled "Then, I

roughly with a silver hot and crisp. Williams' Pink Pills, and soon begun and cut up

until you have practically

Cut in sections to improve. My appelite picked up spoon

the berries. Let them and I felt less tired, the dizziness halved all

took 011 a disappeared, my face healthy tinge, and I gained strengthstand and get juicy while you make layer cake. Serve

and bake a scone dough. rapidly. Now man."

Those who have tried Dr. Williams' Pink Pille often say that the benefit following their use is almost too wonderful to be believed. Actually the reason is quite simple. It is rich this: these pills create blood, which strengthens the nerves, banishes anaemia, and improves the appetite and digestion. Try them now. Obtainable at chemists every- where.

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Gelatine: A Summer Cookery Aid

I soups are too thin they can be 'guess that to-day's peach or spricot made thick and sustaining by the dessert was yesterday's "left-over" addition of gelatine. Consomme, of if it is skilfully embalmed in a fruit which gelatine is largely the founda- jelly? tion, is much less heating than ordinary soup, and is more accept- able in hot weather,

A novel icing for cakes which will remain firm and clear in hot weather is made by dissolving a teaspoonful | Many children do not like milk of gelatine in half a cup of boiling and cannot digest milk puddings, but water with a few drops of flavouring the appeal of a milk jelly or a pret essence. To this old enough icing lly coloured blancmange is irresis tugar to make a spreading paste. tible. With the use of gelatine, hard

curds cannot form and the pudding

Cold tongues and meat shapes look

is made light and palatable. For much more important when clothed this reason, gelating should form the in glaze. Dissolve hair an ounce of gelatine in two cups of water and foundation of most invalid dishes.

boll well with a tablespoonful of Aspic jelly, which can be prepared meat extract. This glaze keeps per- instantly from the packet, is an in- fectly if stored in a well covered jar valuable vehicle for presenting odd- and may be melted down when re- ments of fish, meat, or game in new quired. and attractive form; and who will

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