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Yes, they look odd, but they're fun to make

TTERE are some weird and wonderful animals

that can be used as decoration or as toys for the nursery. The children can have lots of fun helping to make them and they can let their imagination run riot, too

What you will need are lots of corks of varied sizes

Decorative Cords

MOLOURED cord is much used for

decorative purposes.

When picture cords cannot be rendered entirely unobstrusive, it is a new idea to make them frankly decorative and to twist and tie them into a pattern against the walls.

For this purpose, a slender, bright coloured cord may be chosen, in con- tract from your walls,

Multi-coloured corded fringe may be used to trim a very modern table cloth,

and fitted to the table-top made of silver or coloured American cloth. Thick white cord looks well outlining curtains, bedspreads" and dressing-table covers, being sewn Just inside the hem.

For Your Dinner Table

MONG the new linen of the sea- large dinner there are son

Are

take them from old medicine bottles. Most families seem to get far too big a collection of these. You will also need some wire, matches, foothpicks and orange sticks. Perhaps, also, some odd strips of bright coloured leather or fabric to use for first or a tail if you make the dog shown in the first picture. His long neck, made of a

Nails

Your

Brittle?

Y

-OU wouldn't go to sleep at night with

single match stick, is an amusing contrast to his short, splayed legs

The third and fourth pictures show other nameless breeds of dogs which can be copied easily. But once you've learnt by practice how to make them you'll probably think of lots of other animals you would like to reproduce in cork and match sticks

ed to grow up to the fingertip. It controls the flesh and so stops those ugly little "cushions" which protrude and give the fingery a square appearance when they ought to look alen- der.

Everyone grows two whole new 'nails a year. But they grow gradually and so you can start at any moment to get them into condition and, provid- ing there is no definite disease, they will come right again, no matter how dreadful they may look before the treatment.

To begin with, you should never use very harsh soap: soda, or very hot water.

When the nails are filed

By Elsie Scott

unremoved. Or, at least, I dreds of women now is break- they must be filed one way only hope not.

ing nails," said an expert, who and very gently with a flexible calls her salon a "nursing home file or emery board.

But it is, one chance to a cloths, made of white linen widely hundred if you take off

encrusted with lace-Just the thing for your next party. brown fine linen, with vivid, multi-

mani-

for nails."

IT important dinner your nail varnish from the Sets of mats are made of pale time you have one coloured, applique flowers, with eut- cure until the next. out edges around them.

While you are getting the nails into perfect order, it is better not to use varnish at all

CLEAN OUT YOUR

STOMACH

-and enjoy your food!

There are some people who never really enjoy their food because no matter. bow long ago it was since they last had a meal, they always feel" full up." Some feel as though a lump were lodged in the middle of their chests--others as though thele stomach were blown out like a balloon with wind and gas.

This is because the food from their

last meal has not been completely digested, and remains belind in the stomach, turning bad and forming acid and evil gases. Food must be digested and cleaned

right out of the stomach after every acal, if you are to feel ready to eat at the proper time. If you sulter in this way. Fowder after eating. It will help you take a dose of Maclean Brand Stomach to digest all your food in the proper way. provent the formation of too much achi and unhealthy gas, and clear poisonous wasto gently out of the system. Wind, flatulence, heartburn all go if you take this scientiae remedy. Even such serious as gastric and duodenal ulcer have been ended by Maclean Brand Stomach Powder, Get a bottle to-day-but make sure you really do get the genuine Maclean Brand Stomach Powder with the signature, ALEX. C. MACLEAN" on bottle and Never sold loose. Pawilet ut

carton. Tablets. Cheap substitutes may make

for

TT may take two or more except on rare occasions for your trouble worse. If you have any years of continual var- parties, and it should be re-difficulty in obtaining it, write to Banker

& Co. f.). Box 54, Hung lư nishing to break downI the moved directly afterwards. Am I health of the nails. But it will "But how can I get my nails eventually happen, and then to look presentable?" you will

ask, they crack and break and it This leaving on of the lacquer takes months to get them into stone polish and a buffer, in the They can be polished with a all the order again.

old-fashioned way. And there's

Some of the nicest mats are made right?

of quilted chiniz-line fabric, with

ships and seascapes painted up eventually dries out

them.

Round mats of linen and artificial

silk hove a lovely sheen and are natural oil in the nail. edged with pastel tinted circles, of graduated sizes.

YOU CAN'T

KEEP TEETH

BRIGHT – QUMS HEALTHY by using a 1/2 way Toothpaste

PRICKLY HEAT

HONGKONG FOOT, and ALL TROPICAL SKIN COMPLAINTS

This expert is against leaving nails. They should be polished A safe and effective remedy

a warning about buffing the

"The great cry with hun- on varnish all day and night. one way only and then not too

A toothpaste that docs only half the job is not enough.

In these days when 4 out of 5 people over 40 have Pyor rhea, you need the double protection of FORHAN'S. This toothpaste docs more than clean teeth. Forhan's protects you from infected gums. Forhan's is a splendid toothpaste, containing as an active ingredient Dr. Forban's famous Astrin- Kent, which acts beneficially on the gums, pro- tecting them from infection, Don't use a half- way toothpaste. Have sparkling teeth and healthy gums-use Forban's. Buy a tube today!

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It should be used, but it should quickly or heavily as that makes

be removed, just like make-up. them hot, which, again, tends to

The nails need nourishing every dry, out the oils.

bit as much as the skin does

and so special creams are used

to keep them healthy

AN

I

HAVE just been trying

FL jellied preparation which is very-good-for-keeping.

the nails in order.

TI-TREE

OIL SOAP

A Skin

THE Germicidal Toilet Soap. ND now I'm going to It cleans them marvellously

Soothing & Refreshing, par- tell you some of the after gardening, for, however revolutionary things I heard. strong gardening gloves are, ticularly after Exercise.

the earth seems to seep through Tonic & Deodorant, Do you push back the cuticles the leather when the hands after washing your hands? That's all wrong, according to come in contact with it. this expert. A healthy cuticle needs no violent pushing. It warm water, a little of the pre- Sole Agents; DANBY & HANCE, paration is smeared on them, should be gently lifted with a and then they are cleaned with. hoof-stick and the nourishing

The finger-tips are dipped in

OBTAINABLE EVERYWHERE.

cream placed under it. This rubber brush. When per- acts as a tonic to the embryo fectly free from stains, just a little more of the puste is nail growing beneath.

rubbed round the cuticles and, And do you file down the nails in time, the half-moons appear without any drastic at the sides? That's wrong, clearly too. Each nail should be allow treatment.

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