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The sun-dress has shaped panels in the skirt, which make it practical for seaside tennis as well as beach wear. A sloovaluss matching jackot partners the second frack, with its original collar and cuffs. UST twenty and all out for fresh air and sunshine. yet how a lovely day can be spoilt by the wrong frock or the feel- Ing that your hat, bag or shoes are not just right with the rest of your outfit.

When you are young, molchills are apt to assume mountain-like proper- tions, so before I go on to describe to day's patterns, here is a word of advice on summer colour schemes,

Do, please keep your wash frocks, however many you have, to three or four shades--this allows plenty of cholce-and make one set of neces sories do for two or three dresuCH.

blue For instance. with brown or the following colours blend beautifully -most staden of blue from love in thin mist to bright cornflower, green froin palest lear shades to quite brilliant hues, china or coral pink, orange, lemon, terra cotta, coral, sand, beige, white and off white.

Bear in mind, too, that beige and white accessories tono in with anost shades successfully. In addition, they are cool looking and give a summery nute to an outfit

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They are particularly selected for those who do not make many of their own clothes and are really easy-24 make styles for the amateur with the minimum of scams.

I want you to study the back view of pattern No, 1054. You will notice that it has a smart slashed bodice.

This litle sun dress is cut with shaped panels in the back of the skirt as well as the front. It will, therefore, servo 23 a useful tennis frock s there is plenty of room to run about the court. Size 34in. bust takes 22 yds, 301, fabric. Bizes obtainable are 32. 34. 30 and 38. bist.

Don't you like the checky collar and cults of pattern No. 1055. In blue and white It would have a sinart nauticul air. The front is double breasted, and there in a sleeveless matching jacket.

There are a nice range of skes uval}- Bize able, 32, 34, 30, and 30in. bust, 30in. bust takes 41 yds. 36in. material, 13 yds. contrast.

A coat to slip on over frocks is an indispensable item of your summer

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wardrobe, I suggest that you make it a neutral colour in one of those nice camel hair cloths. They are light in weight, yet warm If it is cool.

You can have this design, No. 1966, In three sizes, 34, 38 and 40. busi. Ular 36in. bust requires 23 yds. 34. ont, and if you do want to line it, you well ared 3 yds. 36. materint

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Science Looks At Marriage

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A slip-on cont is a useful holiday extra. Camel hair cloth would be a good choice for material.

BITS TO CUT OUT

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IF you

nnis in your cupboards

are bothered with fÁRRIAGE. need' no longer be a wife are living and happily married, paint all round the inside edges and lottery. The science of marriage this improves their daughter's out-crevices with creosote. Keep a piece prophecy is now being investigated look for happiness. The same prin- of camphor on each shelf. and the preliminary results make it ciple applies to the husband. "In- elear that by strict adherence to the laws" rules by chances of a happy marriage full pot

do not develop their White Linen

35 trouble-makers

can be greatly improved. A century until they are widowed. hence, courting couples should be

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GREAT mothers, whether they leave their child to the amah or not. regard play as a natural process the child will learn by him- self. This is true, and it is also not true. Just as the child will probably learn to speak eventually, even if he is not assisted, so he will learn to play, but

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unless he has the proper A SHOW YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO MISS! guidance he will not learn

to play properly.

So often out here one meets the child who can't play by himself ("Won't," his mother usually says) who must have an amah or mother or another child to piny with him. This is a sad reflection on his parent.

A young chl

child should learn to amuse himself, and given the right toys, and having been taught to use them, he will do so. To be able to play by himself is one of the great assets of his life,

Remember how annoylug people are when they cannot it at home, but must for ever be going out some- where, simply because they have never learned how to amuse them- selves. There won't always be some- one for your child to play with, so nake certain he learns to amuse him- selt.

Concentration

ONE of the most astonishing things about a small child is his power of concentration for a joy he likes. You can watch a mere baby playing with a tin. He will sit for a very long time taking the lid off and put- ting it on again. If he is left undis- Iturbed he will learn to amuse him-

self in this way.

His amusement lies in finding aut something entirely new, in realising that he can do this particular thing himself,

All

play is an attempt on the child's part, unconsciously, to t himself for the part he will play later on. Therefore, encourage such games. Let the child Imitate you, For help you if you are doing some

work in which he can help.

Don't thrust him aside when you are cooking or dusting or sewing. with "go away, you can't do this," but let him help. Give the child u needle and cotton and an old piece of material. She will be perfectly happy imitating Mummy, and think- ing ahe is doing something of value.

THE trouble in this country is, of course, that Mothers do so lite. They rarely cook--a joy to any child or sweep, or make the or dust. beds, or wash the clothes. And mahs can't be bothered with: child- ren when they are busy. But you should try to let your child do these things. If she wants to wash clothes,

A wet

is soon romper changed, even if amah thinks it is a nuisance.

PAKE three or four thin

slices of demon (the rindet her. should be cut off) and put them in your boiler with white clothes and house linen.. It will help to give

your clothes a white, well-cared-for

Brothers and sisters on the wife's able to have their chances of hap side decrease the chances of hop

On the piness calculated to several places of piness by about 20 per cent.

husband's side the decrease is not decimals.

No fewer than forty factors enter quite so large.

Education is quite an important look, into the success or failure of mar- ringe. Each factor has been given a factor in marriage. The higher a different "weight." Perhaps it does couple stand in the cultural scale the Moths Beaten

of safety from not need science to tell us that the witter, their margin

Wide discrepan- four weightiest factors are the four domestic discord.

cles between the cultural level of "in-laws."

Some of the discoveries of selence husband and wife are prolifle sources are in accordance with the findings of trouble.

commonsense and comedians,

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If she wants to serub the floor, Hive her a bucket of water and a brush in the bathroom where she Don't all the time. can do no harm. say "no-you will kill her interest, wonder when you get and probably T this time of the

year me" why your child is so lacking inost women are waging

in the normal routine of the house. moths. mosquitoes and flies. war against an invading air force of in the interest other children show Early play is entirely Individual. Perhaps the greatest of

these young children do not play together. the moths. Their unnoyances are is mother

the Long or Short Engagement. " The busband's

but their games do not interlock. As marriage "in-law" who affeels

On that very vexed question the silence enables them to get on with They may play beside each other,

the good work in peace.

the child grows older it will have cool detach-

The moth metuce is on the in to learn to play with others, and here most seriously. With ment, science har calculated that it length of engagement prior to mar-

The reason for this is proba little careful guidance will make is dead the rage, selence provides a definite and the husband's

mother

interesting answer. From three toase.

ably central heating, and the fact life much easier for the child. these that the couple will live ve years is the best length for that most houses these days possess frst she will resent another taking

bride's life of harmony. The

courtship; this includes the engage- father is next in importance on the list of potential marriage-wreckers ment period. Doubtless this asser- bollers, which means that they use

couples tion will cause

many modern If he is not living, the prospects of happiness are quite good. It both to raise their eyebrows in disdain, Where the courtship lasts for less these parents are dead, the odds are than a year, there is 20 per cent. 1961 in favour of happinesa.

10 chance of happiness. A courtship Parents, however, according science, have their uses before marres than three months increases this

percentage to 30. Courtships riage. marriage, Imuch better than a mother's. Selence goes so far as to say that as a general rule it is safe to disregard mother's advice, whether for or against. Ifappiness Chances

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take heed. His adylee is able.

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answer is to warmer than they used to be, thus her toys, will always want every- ome suggest some game the children can When furniture or carpets have play together-tea parties, mummies making the moths far more at home. thing herself. The

doctors, and so forth been badly attacked by moth, there and daddies,

is only one safe method of guarding and give each its own part, to take against further damage, and that is turns

to have the article concerned treated | Children play better by themselves,

use.

M.

them

a father advises against a ceeding five years in length are also to a special baking process now in than when they have an annoying

adult giving orders. Teach Most big furniture stores and up-games, and then leave them to play children are not such good marriage prospects as members of holsterers undertake this work fuicly alone. But do track them! families. This seems to contradictinexpensively, and it really is neces- for other the previous finding about brothers sary to have it done, and sistrs, but the two results are articles of furniture might easily be

distinct. The come infected in the same way. quite separate and

pick "

partner

There are liquids which can be When a wife is outside interests, best thing to do is to her inarriage is more likely to turn who is not an "only" child and then safely sprayed upon all kinds of de- out successful than that of the wife

Rust-resisting

Rlected metals.

UST quickly damages neg- To protect

who clings to the old maxim that the care to live right away from thelicate fabrics, and even animals, and metalwork you want to store, smear

other members of the family. A are o splendid preventive. place of a woman is in the home. wife's sisters are sources of trouble, Up to a certain paint. Interest in re- church affairs, clubs, and Thin social organisations

with

Young people bred in cities and Sweet Scents greater dificulty in making marital on the part of adjustments than those brought up the chances of in

rural other

& Communities. This is an-1

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it over with vaseline before putting It way.

Use up your Tea

Mmatching

TAKE false hems

material, the wife increases

announcement, them with lavender and tuck them success in marriage.

to the edges of your net curtains. Husbands and wives who loved Many people believe that the oppo- their parents are likely to be happy site is the case, owing to the fact that Summer breezes will blow the scent inside

whose elty life calls for more adjustments into your room. cach other. Those family relationships were not far than country life. The comparative monlous find it more difficult to make failure of city-bred couples is prob

ably due to the nervous strain of elty adjustments in the married state.

Happiness is hereditary, Subject life, rather than to fallure to make to the inevitable flat rate deduction allowances. for "in-laws," if both parents of the

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The total Expenditure up to October, 1037, on behalf of sick and destitute children is estimated at $25,000, against which the Income to date is $20,000.

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