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ANN MARVEL tells you
OOKING without fuel sounds remarkably like another version of bricks without straw, or at- tempting to sew without thread. But this time the trick actually works to our advantage.
Not only in it possible to cook excellently on conserved heat alone, but the cooking is teinite- ly ahead in many ways. The principle involves a gradually falling temperature, so that totally enclosed foods often gently in their own julces, without the sometimes ruthless hardening :of high temperatures in dry heat.
The idea behind an endent fuellean Booker is, heat retention, reminiscent of the vacuum principle. Once the food has been brought to simmering point it can be transferred immediately en casserole or saucepan to the Insulated cooker, where will proceed at re- In hot weather duced cooking rate for rome hourg,
It saven the steaminess of simmering saucepans, in wintertime it saves fuel bills, and all the time saves worry and attention-so surely there's something to countries, including Norway and Sweden, have found the "cook-box" effective for genera- tons, while practised campers still use the primitive Iden of our forefathers- stone and leat-lined hole in Good notlons survive the ground-to practical effect.
The Northern
the test of time.
WELL-many of you pro-
bably want how to So make up a hay-box cooker.
here is the way:
First, relect a clean, dry, roundly- constructed wooden bux, with 20 well-Atting lid. Those old-fashioned travelling chests are ideal, but if there Is mathing lely at home go and see if your grocer can fix yote
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Next you need plenty of the finest and freshest country hay, to guarant
teen close, even pack. Now you are
on holiday is the time to bargain for
it.
Line up the bottom and sides of the shest with brown or news paper, lacking it neatly into place. If you have only a limited quantity of huy you can economise by making the uter layers of fine shavings, picked "wool, ur asbestos padding, so that the hay is utilised entirely for the inner sections.
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Finally, place the inside hay Inyers, ramming them down very tightly In ever arrangement, and
Itze them round
cooking packing vessels to form permanent "nests. Earthenware casseroles or small handled pants are the best choice, as they take least room, and are easily moved.
You must allow at least 3ln. to 4. of packing all round them for effective Insulation, though an even greater depth could be given for the Last of all, you top and bottom.
FASHION FABRICS
By Judy Brown
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(ANY....new. Jubrics coment go during the course of a year. But lace has been popular for years now. It is one of the favourite materials for informal evening gowns and the tunle. Lace appears in many glor- bus pastel shades in addition to the more usual black, brown, beige and It is usually won over tin- derslips of a contrasting colour, 'such black, over silver, brown over gold, while over black, and pink black.
white.
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Lace looks very becoming when usel for tunles and blouses, and worn with tailored ensembles.
How to cook
without fuel
Inner layers of Hay
Cor outer insulation and inner Hay)
Paper or Asbestos,
Lining
Top weighted Hay Cushion
Nest
By Walter M.
Gallichan
cases
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IMPAIRMENT of the capacity 2019 for restful sleep is one of 9005 the common disorders of the age 2080 of nervous stress in which wei
Obstinate
in- of live. somnia are difficult to cure by 3085 the ordinary means, such as a change of scene, a fresh occupa tion, careful dieting, and the cm- ployment of medicinal sedatives,
One of the great essentials of sleep is forgetfulness or a sub- pension of conscious mental exertion. When the brain is overstrained and poisoned by continues often fatigue, it to net in spite of its weariness, and fatigue ceases to influence the soporific action usually associated with it. This condition of wakefulness may be induced by muscular over exer- tion or by excessive exercise of the brain.
TN some Instances varkus remedies
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for risomula may prove ineffec- tunt. The sufferer has passed the stage when a hop-pillow, a hot-water bottle to the fect, or a narcotic drink in the form of 'night-cop will
alert nerves Soothe the too senses to slumber. Frequently the [next resort is to veronal or one or For other of the medical sedatives, n spell a drug may bring sleep; but If the disturbance of the sleep habit is serious, an ordinary dose soon be comes almost powerless, and there is the danger that a craving for drugs may arise.
The simple forms of sleeplessness are often remedied by encouraging a Istate of healthy fatigue of mind pind body and by a resolute endeavour to
member to have foods actually sim- racks, and simple directions for check brain activity for an hour or
mering when they are put into it,
and allow almost twice as long for using them.
cooking most things as it is essential-
ly a "slowed down" process.
serole dishes
cuni terally
two before going to bed
A persistent type of wakefulness necessitates a more subtle and com-
The patent cooker, belag lined plex treatment. The primary cause. stainless metal, is, adaptable of protracted insomnia may be only recognised by the consel- dimly very everything closely covered with Keep and clamped down. Never uncover for ment roasting, or the baking of ous mind, or it may exist deep down just to see how everything is get cakes. Metal discs are pre-heated in the subconsciousness and never ing on, because nothing can spoil so long as it is not lett beyond time and gel above and below the food, reveal itself to the subject. A state transforming the compartment into of nervous irritation brought on by strain, undue exercise, or excitement and all reason.
is often a contributing Inetor in the Overnight water storage or cereal a "radlant" oven. cookery has special viriues for the colder weather to come, while cas- After tight sealing, the heat re-disease, but the root-cause is entire-
ly hidden und unsuspected, cakes brown very be left tains well, und to their own devices during the busy evenly on the descending tempera-|E unconscious source of the de- day hours. In fact, you can go out
privation of restorative sleep be discovered by un often reduced can for a walk and let the cuolding get ture scale. Meat scores too, by
flavour and Increased need will
thickly-padded hay
experienced inental therapist through shrinkage.
a careful analysis of the patient's cushions to fit over the top of each long by itself. section, before, the lid fits into posi-
THIS accessory system is
Anollier pull with the patent dreams. It is being made mani- month by tion. Its as well to weight ench
clearly by no means restricted cushlon down with stones, or a brick,
to stews and. "moist" processes, cooker is the case with which it is fest
kept in to ensure good contact.
condition. Just regular month that the so-called "nervous- The diagram shows you the rela- and those who like the idea of washing and airing, with all the fitness" leading to anxiety, depression, the ordinary worry, and sleeplessness originates
in the underconscious mind. five position of the cooking vessels, this new freedom will be glad to tings overhauled in and the recusaing of the top padding. know that a most satisfactory course of kitchen routine.
is a stern but unrecognised In the case of a hay-box, the con in all of us below the thin surface Of course, you can make a small fuelless cooker can be purchased, couk box just for one saucepan or complete with clamp-down sauce- dition of the hay is a primary con- of our conscious thought. This un- hol-water vessel, or a more elab-
roasting and baking cern. Spillings involve Immediate suspected struggle is apparent only versed in the replenishments, and regular re-to the psychologist orate affair with two or more nests. Das,
dream symbols, ~|~||~||~|~|~|~|~|~ making is essential for airing and analysis of The great thing is to have sufficient
maintaining sweetness The came when the nature of the confilet is space between them wooden par- ̈ ̈
holds for any containers or kettles brought into the full apprehension titions being preferable, in addition to thick hny, divisions.
that are regularly used in the box, of the sleepless man's consciousness, for they
all repay for systematic the capacity for calming slumber is
restored. airing.
When you use your hay-box, re-
DARNING
DAY TIPS
the
LACE can often be invisibly
mended by running sewing machine to and fro over the worn part. This is quite effective with lace curtains and can be done on ilmen goods too.
Blouses, dresses, coats, and jackets of lame are seen everywhere,, usually In gold or silver, but sometimes with ather
through shudes "shooting"
them.
DEFORE mending
BE
new darning woul
with
hold
It in the steam of a kettle for a few
minutes and let it slowly dry. This I Both Jace and Inime are used exten- shrinks it so it will not "pull" or sively for trimmings on plain dark pucker when the garment mended is garments, both for evening and day-washed.
Ume wear.
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OOSELY twisted knitting 14 silk Is Tweeds are very popular, but they'
often better than are finer than before. They appear wool for darning the light-weight shades and pat-woollles, especially if the darning is unusual
The texture of very loosely done. the darn is then more like the woolly Suede is not only used for shoes itself than when daming wool is nowadays. It is greatly used for jused.
In many
terns,
headgear. Berets and hats are now DAR
ARN children's socks and
mnde in suede. It is also used for complete ensembles-hat, Jacket, akirt, with shoes and handbag to
muten.
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stockings at the knees in crosswise
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Men don't
like you.
1. To use their funnel trousers
as beach pyjainn's.
2. To discuss domestic affairs
in public.
3. To nag them about the angle at which they wear their
hat.
4. To
be continually giving directions when they are It is annoying driving a car. and entirely unnecessary when they know the way with thele eyes closed.
a meal in a res- 5. To order
taurant, it is n man's pri- vilege to do so. Men feel that women do sumelent ordering in the home.
6. To be continually asking them for a cigarette. Keep a supply of your own handy. 7. To turn out their wardrobe without flrat consulting them. The older n sult clothes gets the dearer it be comes to a man. This particu larly applies to tweeds.
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