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My Ideal House has

O you rethember the old maxim-h place for every- thing and everything in its place? always asso-

clate this with cupboard room. Plenty of cupboards sim- plify cleaning and enable you to train the family into the good habit of Udiness,

We may miss the capacious cup- boards of the Victorian house, but the ingenious built-in fitments of today And you can make up for them.

nearly always find room In an odd corner for an additional cupboard unit. These units are useful for providing For extra storage space upstaira. example. a unit dressing table might be flanked on one side by n low cup- board for boats and shoes, and on the other by a unit wardrobe, which can be Bet apart for the husband's use.

Boots & Shoes

A bout and shor cupboard is in hny case a practical addition to the bed- room. is fitted with a double tier of rucks (rse allow the air to circulato round the shoca) and a curtain pulla across the front.

One particularly sensible wardrobe Zas eliding doors and is made 11 inches deep so that it will take coat hangers comfortably.

It is onetimes a good plan to put this second wardrobe on the handley. experialty if you use it for storing clothes not in everyday use.

Bathroom cabluet and malice cupboard go without saying, but I fi

all cupboard for bath cleaning materials hauly, and it saves a good dens of running up and down stairs, Put it alongside the bath, enamel it to match the rest of the scheme, fit it with a cork or linoleum top, and you have a useful stool.

Ceiling High

Two celling-high built-in cupboards, with a nuller one between them, make a practical fitment for one wall In the dining room, and it can rome- times be constructed from two exist- Ing cupboards.

In its case face the duors with ply- wood, fit them with plahi bar handles, and enamel them to bring them into line with the rest of the scheme, One

Fruity Sweet

TEMPTING me zingur male with

blackberries

Put 1lb. blackberries in a alore jar and stand! this in sauterpan of ball-

in water over n low heat.

When the Julee is extracted, strain

this off and awertrii,

Artange tree sponge Augers in the bottom of a buttered plenush, pur over the blackberry juler und let it soal well into the sponge.

Make a custard with the yolks of two egua, i plut milk and sugar to taste, pour this 1920 the dish, then hake a slow even until the custard littles

15 set.

Whip the egg whites with caster sugar ton stik fruth, add a few blanched and chopped atminds, then bake saly until lightly browned. Oven mark 1.

Little Caps Off The Head

E little caps which, when seen

HOMEMAKER'S

DIARY BE BOLD

WHEN BUYING YOUR MILLINERY

PLENTY of

CUPBOARDS

of the tall cupboards could be used to house a child's toys.

A cent cupboard is useful in the ball. If there is no corner la wilch'it can bo butt-in, an oak wardrobe makes a useful and attractive plece of furni ture. Choose one fitted with an ex- .tending rail for hangers and a drawer In which you can keep garden shoes and other oddments,

The cupboard under the stairs ta useful, too, and should not be the "glory hole" 1: sometimes 18. Seeing that it is usually rather deep and dark.

MIDGE

Knitting

Lessons

"And they cull it plain!"

5.

says Janet Jay

it would be a good plan to have an elec tric light fixed inside nud use it for atering the vacuum cleaner and other cleaning materials. Homes for mops and brushes can form part of the kitchen cupboard equipment,

A corner cleaning cupboard saves space; has hooks for brooms and brushes, a shelf for a tall and spaco beneath for a "housemaid's "box.

Hide the Uglies

Minke the most of the space under the sink. This can be entirely boxed in. and there Is usually room for two good. alzed cupboards. stili allowing free access to the. waste pipe. These can be kept for pails and scrubbing brushes. Screw looks to the inside of the doors for floor cloths.

Cupboards for glass and china are best built on the shallow side, so that Bhelves everything is "get-at-able." should be just wide enough to take one pile of plates,

Extra food eupboards depend on the size of the kitchen cabinet and larder. but I find that a separate one for dry stores relieves pressure on the larder when extra supplies are ordered t holiday Lime.

Some of these, cupboards have ven Blated tap scellons, and so can be used for storing ment. butter and milk

mportant. Cupboard Bings re Those in the living rooma luck nttrac.

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AN artist's ideas on

the landing in place

good uses

Jor

cupboards.

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of banksters.

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Nati dining room, to in- clurte ikeboard. Compact fitments for 4. smail bedroom.

In the hall, a' cup- board for clothes and

useful under-stairs storage *pace.

5.

sliding door cup- boards in kitchenette utensils and FOT

cleaning materials.

tive when lined with sprigged walk- paper, especially when the rest of the walls are plain.

Chintz eretonne and balloon fabric make pretty detachable linings for If you clothes and linen cupboards. tack them into place with large draw- ing pins, they can be quickly taken out for washing.

math linen cupboard provide & matching cover for each shelf.

Lancaster cloth is a good Bning for both walls and shelves of china and food cupboards, because it is so easy to clean.

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Repairing A Carved

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NY woman who endeavours to dreas really well upon a small income generally buys the bulk of her clothes twice a year, and is an odd seldom tempted to buy

But garment beween seasons. millinery is another proposition for "mi lines" are continually chang- Ing, and a really new and up-to- date model la an excellent refresher for a slightly tired wardebe.

So please do not be too conser valive in your choice of hats, and when you buy one at this time of the year, let it be the newest and And, the smartest that you can Don't wait until you have got

shapes- necustomed to the new

else's head-be- somebody Upon

wil cause by that time they out-of-date.

LET

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possess when we are selectiing a new suit or dress, but do let us choose our hals with abandon.

Large hats can look quite devastat- ing upon the right person-but be mire that you are the "right person" before you finally decide upon one. The width of the hat should be in it your height and proportion to should also be chosen with due re- gard to the width of your face.

The woman who wears these hats to perfection is always tall and has rate, u fairly full face-er, at any wide cheek bones. A long neck's a great help, too, in this respect, but the forward tit of your hat does much to counteract the short neck- especially if the brim is fairly straight.

Very Shallow Crown

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THE newest wide brimmed hats have practically no crown all, and the almost straight brims are becomingly bent a trifle at the skic-front, and side-back. The inch- bigh crowns ure sometimes hidden by a wealth of flowers, or a piece them, of velvet is twisted around with long ends lald across the front. of the brim, from edge to

These

nats are often coldful.

hat, and we see a lovely bluc blue velvet trimming. surmounting

all-white dress, while pink hat, with deeper pink mauve velvel or lower trimming. may be worn with black.

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and

All black, wide brimmed hats are. also worn with black, white, pastel dresses.

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For women who prefer rather Is there any way of repairing the

Which smaller

there are attractive hats carping uni a wooden screen

little coloured straw "sailors" with has gol chipped?

crowns. trimmed with There is a substance known as shallow "plastic wood" which is invaluable wreath of matching flowers.

well for repairing wood, You can colours these hats, look

hata crevices or build it up as you wish dark or white outils. The brims are

It almost stenight, and the and then sandpaper or carve it. is pale fawn in colour, but is cap-worn well forward, slightly to

side. able of absorbing stain and colour,

When making glace grapes is it necessary to skin them first?

The grapes should not be skinned as it is essential that they should be

Can one apply, the Hay Diet prin- How soon after & protein meal mauas dry as possible in order to hold

ciples to logs as it seems that they a starch one be taken? too sometinica show symptoms of ucidusis?

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Trimming The Brim ANOTHER type of hat is generally A of coarse straw and has n slightly curved brist which is turned the glaze. Wash and dry thorough all round. Here, too, the trim and a half hours Three

shouldly leaving them on their stalks, three mug is generally of matching velvet flowers, or both used together, and clapse between the two meals If the or four in a bunch.

crown encircling the shallow

the digestion of both is to be complete:

What Even more time should be allow-

TEMOVE nail-varnish perhaps binding the edge of

brim. A dog's digestive system works in

Sometimes the brim of a hat of off the head, look so lanocent- the same way as in, human beings ed if a mixture or number of pro- from the lining of a suit case?

been taken. The more

Saturate a piece of cotton wool in Justin, basin-shaped bit of felt and the Hay Diel en certainly be teins have ur knitted silk, with a small "tube" applied to them. One meal a day is simple the meal the more readily it neetune which is obinfunpic from the similar shape, but of finer straw is of self fabric sticking out of the top adequate. No food should be given will be digested.

chemist and make a ring round the turned up sharply at one side and when before 11 quite devastating can be

staln. Working from the acetone to lower or pair of quills may be For smart occasions there are tiny worn in the correct manner.

As Dr. Hay does not recommend wards the stain rub gently. Charge placed against the hair.

made of various materials. cops cating more than one protein at a the cottonwool as it becomes sticky. They

"bunchy" absolutely on the buck of the head. Every other night give a meal of meal does that mean that mushrooms Repeat, working as quickly as possi One consists of a wide,

bow placed at one side of the bend so that, they are not visible at all broken biscuit and vegetables mol- carmot be taken with a grill? from the front.

stened with vegetable soup, a little

over the forehead. Mushrooms contain protein in an

straw tags Little berets with Can you tell me how to remove They cull for a speclat style of

or egg yolks. On the other easily digested form which does not hairdressing, too, if they are to look nights give liver, meat, tripe, or fish interfere with the digestion of other the pollsh evenly from a Cleese and surrounded by towers are tiited

of green vegetables, proteins or is affected by them itself. carved lump?

eye, while diminutive really smart. The hair ahould be with plenty

are one of the foods Use an old tooth brush around the cap, at the Spinach and raw grated carrots are Mushrooms brushed up

and lower-covered bonnets are worn at front, back and sides.

particularly good for eczema which which can be eaten with elther pro-methylated spirits and brush hard in the back of the head and in some F782—Whatcha Gouna do When there Aint No Swing. 13 common on dogs in this country. teins or carbohydrates.

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ALUFFY, much be-curled heads are "out" and a smooth coiffure, with turned-in rolls is the line to achieve these, days.

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It usually looks 100, when it comes fresh from the hairdresser's clever fingers, but in twenty-four hours the effect is often less attractive. It certainly is dim- cult to curl those smooth, shining rolls of hair around your finger with an ordinary comb.

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