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ANY readers write for advice on furnishing rooms for the children are con- cerned with planning for Baby when he reaches the toddling slage.

t room

He is probably needing a larger cat, beginning to take an interest In toys, in fact, Just getting to the age when he enjoys his surround- hugs.

The planning of such a room is often more enjoyable than the preparation of his rat frilly' cot."

The small bedroom over the hall will make a most attractive baby's room, but if you have the choice of rooms at the fe at and back of the house, choose the quieter side and the manner aspect.

A room which is not directly over the Hving-room is best, but if this is unavoidable, a good floor envering wil do mitch to deadeu sound from below:

Safety First Floors

Cork linoleum is one of the most satisfactory coverings for the floor in

a baby's room; it can be left unpal- ished and is easily cleaned by a ruh over with a dry mop.

Cork carpet is a good alternative if you intend to dispense with ris alto. aether, no it is warm to baby's teet When he starts to crawl; rubber would not be expensive for a small room.

When choosing the curtains, deelde on those which can be easily washed or Eponged. A inaterial which can be tried As a screening curtain is best for n child's room, I find, as you will need something to soften the light on after. goons when Baby lakes his map is his col.

— Curiain ninon tu a soft pastel colouT In good material for Übla purpose. and looks delightful with a frilled hem. On silk is translucent, too, and It can be had in really pretty floral patterns.

Practical Furnishing

This brings me to furniture. Some people like painted furniture, ns it can be worked into the colour scheme, buk light onk is just as practical, White wood furniture does not finger-mark ensily when oiled or wased, and you

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Right,

peach

pink walls assa

ercan work:

27 background la tricome the

new arrival.

Furnishing BABY'S

and Decorating

Left, a painted nursery thyme screen al the

head of buby's blue col. Toy cupboards on either side of the window seat,

might consider this Anish as an alter- native to a coloured une.

In baying furniture, It is wire to look

a year or two ahead, and choose pieces which will fast baby until he is five or fix at least. Cot versus bedstend is one example.

If baby is a climber you will probably feel happier about him in a cót with à drop side, but there are also some nt- tractive miniature wooden bedsteads with wooden sidepieces which can de removed as he grows older,

A Amall-sized wardrobe is essential. One of the nicest I have seen has hang. Ing race at one side. a cupboard for

MIDGE

Homo Pago Pickla

"Isn't this a pretty colour,

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toilet things on the other, and below this two good sized drawers; yet the whole thing is only about four feet high,

Table On Wheels

Later on, especially if by is a girl, you could mild a miniature dressing table with a round frameless mirror, This furniture can all be hnd cannelled in pale colours and decorated with nursery rhyme Ngures.

Don't forget a low nursing chair for yourself with a comfortably shaped back, and, while Baby is still smnil, you will probably find a low table on wheel a

a great help at bath time.

It is enamelled and made on the lars of a tea trolley, but has a lift-up top which reveals compartments for everything you are Mely to need.

A Loy cupboard is useful, too. Thi should be chosen in a rmall size sa that its lttle owner can open and shut it himself, and it is an encouragement to tldingas as baby gets bigger.

A pedestal bedalde cupboard. in whitewood and enamelled inside and aut, makes a good pinybox, and if fitted with rubber castors is easily pushed ncross the room.

Lighting is important, because a stronic glare of any kind is bad for a young baby's eyes. I would choose nu enclosed shade made of tinted obscured glass.

Don't Wake Him

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It is also a good idea to keep a small lamp or torch somewhere handy out- side the bedroom so that you can avoid switching on the Right if you have to go into the room after baby is asleep, Warmth will only be needed at bedtime in winter. A small portable heater will just take the chill off the room on these occasions.

By

Janet

Jay

you stick to clear pale- shades. Avold the heavy, dark colours, and keep, if possible, to a two-col- our scheme, 26 this creates a restful atmo sphere.

If the room is small; it is best to choose a plain colour, for the and decorate walls

them with an applied nursery frieze or cut-out decorations later on. The celling should be plain, and preferably the same colour as the walls.

Pale green walls and celling, with buttercup yellow glossy paint for the woodwork and furniture, is one suggestion for a Aunny room; another is robin's CKK blue walls and ceiling, cream paint and natural oak furniture, with soft plak for rugs and curtains,

The warni pench shade of pink la good for walls and criling of a room which does not get much sun, nid you can combine it with pale green or forget-me-not blue for curtains and enamelled furniture.

Thirst Quenchers

A THIRST quenching summer drink

is made with mixed fruits.

Put into a Jug Jib. black or white grapes, and squeeze well with a fork. Strain, add the julee of an orange and a lesnon and a cupful of sugar. Mix well and serve very cold.

Pineapple Sherbet

For those who like something Ozzy. Chop pineapple, fresh or tinned. into small pieces, and pour over it twEN ints of cold water. Add the juice of iwo lemons and allow to stand for two or three hours,

Before serving, add one teaspoonful of sherbet to each tumbler of water,

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Columba Scones

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You require & ozs of Shetland wool dark shade, 0 ozs in light shade, two No. 9 needles, two button moulds.

Measurements-Shoulder to hem, 20 Ins; bust, 30 ins; sleeve (under- arm seam), 1854 Ing.

Abbreviations-K-kult; p.purl; t-twist: rep.-repeat; rem-remain; tog-together: beg-beginning; sta, -stitches,

sis. and ten rows to one inch. Always work into backs of cast on stя.

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Back

With dark wool, cast on 144 sts First row- P. 4, miss 1 st., k. next st., k. the alipped at, and slip both of tog. Rep from to end of Second row-- P. 2, k. 4. Rep, from

to end of row. Third row--Same: as frst. Fourth row-P.

row.

Rep. these four rowa until work 12 ins. Join light wool measures and work as follows:-First yoke

row-K. Second-yoke row-K. 6,

p.

4. k. 12. Rep. from until 10 rem

k. 6. Third yoke row-K. P.. Fourth yoke row--Same as escond yoke row.

Fifth yake row-Same as second yoke row next two in order, k., miss two in order, and slip all four sts. nil tog

This will be referred to as

are re-

it. 4 in future.) K. 12. Rep from * until I rem. T. 4. k. 6. The last

Afth) four rows (serend to peated for pattern. When repetition

worked, been

shape armholes, tu care

pattern keep correct 115 decreasings are made, Cart

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taking

rows

2

all 9

15. of

two n:xt tog, at beg. of every row until 112 Continue in pattern on these until work measures 1914 ins. Cast off Dat beg of each if next clight

Cast of remaining 40 sts.

rem.

rows

Front

With dark wool, cast on 152 sts.. and work first four rows of back for 3 ins. Next row-Work 104 sts. (lip the last 50 of these on to a spare needle), work 48. Continue in pat- ten on last 48 ste. unill work mea- sures 12 ins. Next tow-k. 6. cust spare uft 36, K. S. Leave sts. un needle until required. Work other 48 sis. to match.

the

For the two pockets:-With dark wool, cast on 30 sts, and work first Cast Tour rows of back for 4 ins.

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To knit the pocket laps light wool, and cast on 4 sts. First

4. Second row-P. raw-K. Third row-K. twice into arst st. k. last St. Fourth 2, k. twice into row-K, twice into first st., p. 4, k. twice into last st. Fifth row-K. twice into first st., K. 1. t. 4, k. 1, k. ten-twice into last st.

IEVE together 11⁄2 1 four, N, ▷ spoonful ground ginger, 2′ tea- Continue in pattern, increasing 1 spoonfuls of biking powder, and a st. at each end of every row until sts. pinch of salt.

number 36, ending after a second until required. Rub in 1 oz butter and add 15 oz row Leave

front to sts. sugar and 2 ozs chopped dates. Mix Transfer the 56 all well together, and stir in 1 gill needles, and join light wool at left Second row. milk to make a fairly soft dough.

First row-K. side. Roll it out to half an inch in thick-k. 6, p. 4. k. 12, p. 4. k. 4, p. 4, k. and cut into rounds. Then 12, p. 4, k. . Third row--K. Fourth working out the colour place the scones on a greased balting row-Same as second row. Fifth 1.4, K. 4, 1. 4. sheet and bake in a quick oven for row-K. 6, 1. 4, R., 20 minutes,

JL..12, 4, k. . Rep. last four rows dth) until panel mea- (secund

a second sures 7 ins ending after

110 W row (Note.-Needles should point towards left sidy.)

The entire front is now worked into one row, with light wool. Com- mencing with 6 dark sts, at left side. k. 6. K. across a pucket flap, h dark sts, k. 58 sts, of front panel. K.

When scheme, voi cannot go far wrong E

Mother and Daughter Debate

B. M.

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Bacon Collar

A TASTY dish enn be made out of

il piece of collar of bacon, of wives. Admittedly Choose a piece that is neither very BELIEVE my daughter is heading which I never knew and do not feel the outlook

there are dangers in our modern fat nor very lean, maite a few cuts for disaster. I have travelled the able to afford even now.

mode of living; no worth-while life in the rind to allow for shrinking, dark sts: of right front. K. across road already, and I know the pitfalls. She is buying her house by

it on a trivet in the second pocket flap. K. dark sis. the lurking patches of bad fuck, instalments. Half of her furniture is without its "isks. But although and place

G little water at (152) Next row--K. (p. 4, k. 12, Another payment mother tries to make my flesh creep froasting-tin, putting which await her.

is not paid for.

four has to go out for her recently by telling me what might happen to the bottom to keep the joint moist.

times), p. 4, k. 4 (p. 4 k. 12, Bake it in a moderately hot oven, four times), p. 4, k. My daughter married three years

6. Next row ngo, and is now 24. Sometimes, as acquired vacuum cleaner, and her me, she says little about the penalties I leave her bright little house, and husband has a small car, on which involved in following her own phio- allowing a quarter of an hour to the K. Q (t. . k. 12, four times), 1. 4, It. pound and a quarter of an hour over. 4 (t. 4. k. 12, four times). 1. 4. k, 0. who he has made, 1 belleve, two pay sophy of life. blithe the

She forgets to mention that thou is very good served

Work four more pattern rows and inhabits it, I am dreadfully worried. ments.

armhole. Cast off at beg

tog at beg. of every following row until 120 rem. Now

work divide

In ายส centre front (60 sts, each side), and Anish separately thus:--Work in of pattern und k. 2 tog, at neck end every row until 30 rem. When fropt measures 191⁄2 ins from lower edge, cast off in nines from armhole end

young woman

I look back at myself as I was at

with green

Frankly, I just don't understand Bands of women in her generation (pess tossed in a little of the baconch of next two rows, and k

thetleal future.

24. and I realise tint my philosophy how she can do it and not worry, never really lived except in a hypo- fat. of life is utterly different from hers. It may be all very fine as far as it And 1 um afraid, for

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connot coes, and it might be all right if she help feeling, for all her cheerful could be certain that things will Assurance, that she is really heading continue to run smoothly for her. for anster.

1 have Been trying to lay my hand on the real difference between us,

Ignoring the Future

They existed, on bare necessities, throwing away their young lives as

W. B.

~t of happiness from them. I tablespoonfuls of barley which has four times.

Barley Cream Soup a sacrifice to the god of possible mis- fortune. That is not good enough DUT 1 quart of millit into the upper for me. I want to enjoy the good part of a double saucepan and

of life while I nm

the boil. Then add 2 young bring it to to extract the greatest small onions, cut in silces, and 2 The keynote of the lives of the young within her income. But although tend to live it to the full, while the

have only one life to live, and I in- been well washed and drained,

Being again to the boil and, cook married women of my own genera-

carna no absence of the illnesses of advancing steadily for 9 hours, Season to tion was the necessity for rigid relatively her husband economy and for paying for what more than mine ever did, she enjoys years makes it possible for me to do taste, and when ready, pour into a

clothes, amusements, household pos- sessions, holidays which I never

What horrifles me is that she acts and I think I have discovered 11. as it the future did not exist!

she Technically, I suppose.

we had when we had it.

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lives

I see nothing immoral or danger-

them.

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hot tureen and stir in a cupful of cream. Serve this soup with oak- cakes made hot in the oven.

I, M.

Slecven

Join

row-K.

With dark wool, cast on 50 sts, and work in ribbing of k. 2, p. 2 for 4 ins.

light wool. First Second row-K. 64 .P. 4. k. 12, p. 4. k. 4, p. 4, k. 12, p. 4, k. 0, Third row--K. Fourth row-Some as second, Fifth row-K. 8, t. 4, k. 12. t. 4, k. 4, t. 4, k. 12, t. 4 k. 6.

Rep. from second to fifth rows, in- When sleeve clusive, throughout.

two rows

of

Our lives were permanently over- dresined of enjoying--and does not A Remote Risk shadowed by

other prime

save a penny piece. necessity--that of providing for the

I do not envy her, but I cannot, aus in having things and paying for future. We dreaded the future, and on its behalf we ruthlessly sacrificed help feeling that there is something them while I enjoy them, because Filleted Fish the present.

These, as I see now, fundamentally wrong in the way she

possess

WHEN fish is being steamed for an were the motives which guided us enjoys so much before the lins hard- otherwise I should never

Winvalid it is better to buy place measures 3 lus, increase by knitting In everything. That is why for us, ly begun paying for it. It

Mother Always visualises

the amusements were an event, not unsound; too good to be true.

possibility that through or sole, but the cheaper white fish twice into first and last sts. of every row until sts. number 84. something to be enjoyed once a week, In my day we had reserves and dreadful

When sleeve measures 18% ins, a matter of course, or oftener, were prepared for the occasional misfortune I might find myself bereft taste very good made up in tasty fourth New clothes were an event.

blows of unkind fate, To-day's one day of my house, and its con- ways.

Any white fish fileted lends itself shape top, cast off at beg, of next

and k. 2 log, at beg, brightly-shining sun did not deceivo tents. So I might! But it is a risk

I have to take, and all things con- to hot-pot treatment with vegetables. "Pinching and Scraping"

us, we were ready for to-morrow's

Layers of fried onions, finely-chopped every row until sts. are reduced to carrots, sliced tomatoes, and potatoes 36. Cast oft loosely. We rented houses because we were rain. And it is because to-morrow's sidered, it is a remote one.

Mother unfortunately compares should be placed under and over it afraid to buy them on the instalment rain could sweep away everythin

& Collar systent. We bought nothing-fur- which my daughter holds dear that I my position with hers If she had run in the casserole. Finish with

Bul into a similar financial typhoon. until we am desperately afraid for her.

of potatoes cut into thin-alices, niture or anything else,

she overlooks one not unimportant

which

be browned when the can could pay cash for it, and until we THE DAUGHTER'S VIEW

fact. If she, through catastrophie fish is cooked by removing the lid could afford it.

few minutes Poor old mother! The first thing inisfortune, had been compelled to of the casserole for

it she possessed, Nor were we content merely to

and

raising the gus, Unless we religiously she forgets is that if everyone still tell everything pay our way.

Another delicious way of treating put some cash aside every week we acted as her generation did, none of would have taken her a lifetime to Faw ourselves headed for the work- us would enjoy half of what we do get back where she was before. But Alleted fish is to put the washed and

as fortune smiled on me dried Is Boon

filets into. a fireproof dish, enjoy to-day. house.

again first instalments would restore pour over themt two ounces of butter My husband 1s In the

my household gods. And although this meant pinching

and a tablespoonful of lemon juice, would happen to and scraping for most of us, we lind business. What

So many things have changed and sprinkle them with chopped

finely-cliopped onion, and Sew our rewards. I have mine now. I him if nobody bought wireless sets

do but worry pepper an

and owe, nobody a penny, and I am well will they had the ready cash to pay have been little to the there could parsley, & Anely chopped

about the famous "rainy day." În

Let them soak well in the mixture front provided remainder of for my life,

The people who buy hls wireless

them. They should back the clock. I am living by to cover But my daughter.... Her whole sels by instalments make it possible part in there is no use turning before adding enough tomato ketchup new pocket pieces neatly at back. manner of living is based on exactly for us to possess furniture and a modern code which everyone else baked in a moderate oven for a half Her house and the rest of the things follows, and in a way the continu- to three-quarters of an hour, and an opposite, point of view.

ance of the benefits we enjoy deserved with a sprinkling of grated debts alone would have kept me which arouse mother's suspicions,

She owne Mother does not realise that not pends on our continuing to live in cheese. sleepless for a month. hurdly anything, and enjoys luxuries only have times changed, but also the modern way,

radio

W. B.

With dark wool, cast on 81 sis. First row until 2 rem, k. 2 log. Second row-K, 2 tog, k. to end. Rep. these two rows until sts. are re- duced to 48. Work two rows on Work two rows these and cast off. on these and cast off. Work another plece exactly alike.

make up their Jumper press on wrong side.

To

pieces carefully And shoulder, alde,

Bleeve seams und insert sleeves, Join panel at each side, and

be lace sloping edges of collar in cen- sew pieces ovenly tre front, and round neck, folding at centre back. Plait strands of both wools for girdle and for lacing collar, finishing each with tassels.

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