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time

Question BEDROOM

by

ZOE FARMAR

room much more than do pinin

cupboards built that against the wall,

3.

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double

1 If you share room, have you arranged

It so that all your things are on

one side of it, your husband's on other? There is no reason why a room shouldn't look just as

N the end of his bed William Powell has a dash- attractive with twa dressing tables board full of buttons.

in it. The iden of one is just one of those habits of mind that impede / comfort.

As well as just ordinary buttons for calling the servants,

Although the likelihood of 11 there is a button which when pressed opens the front gates (some happening isa usually remote, 11 avenues from the house) and flood-lights the drive; another double bedroom should allow for which turns the bath on; one to draw the curtains; one for the couple sharing it boil to dress at radio, and one which makes a cocktail cabinet spring out of the the same time without war. wall.

And a lot of other buttons whose purposes I can't remember, and the sad part is neither can he. I'm told that quite often when a message from the front gates suys. friends are calling, will

Does your eiderdown al- ways fall off in the night?

to tuck in: IL wouldn't be difficult to join a border like this to your own,

he please open, he just presses the button which turns on the Some of the newer quits have an bath and waits, When the water starts trickling under the door, unquilted border he knows he has made a mistake.

Daily Surprise Dish GERMAN POTATO PAN- CAKES (Kartoffelpuf-

fer).

A German will make a whole meal of these par- cakes, which he eats with a compote of fruit, mually bil- herries,

an add

A

LL of which seems to me to be carrying bedroom plan-

ning too far. I mean the average

Docs your bedside light give enough light for read- person sjoes to bed to sleep, not carry ing without straining your eyes?

a sort of business efficiency ex- hibition,

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an ordinary lamp. If you have standard with a shade, you can Im- And while we're on illustrious prove the light now by culling out sleeping joints, I'd say Charles Laugh- a stelion of the shade a hole can ton's is more of a lesson in rest. face the wall when you're not read- White, with all the cupboards and ing) so that when you read the light. drawers built in the walls; and the is directed straight over your shoul- feature of the room the liest, which der, not diffused.

cover made from swans'

thats

breasts. But be adven-

This may acem combination to you: potatoes and compote. turous and try it one day, and you'll be äurprised hone good and sustaining it is.

Peel five medium-sized potatoes. Grate them on a medium grater and add half. 4 teaspoonful salt and ne whale egg.

Beat together for a minute or two, heat some fat in an iron frying pan, and, when it is very hot, drap in enough of the patata mixture to cover the bottom of the pan. Fry to a pad brown mi both siden. Do not fold the pan- cakes; serve them in a pile. our above the other.

Try rating pour Kartoffel- puffer with buttled red cur- rants or loganberries,

Hester Valentine'

This LS

But let's get along to your ruoin. Questions time.

1. Is the or

6. Are your bedclothes light

enough? The down-quilted lankets (at stockinette ever the klown) you can get now are twice blanket yis warm as the ordinary close-covered find about half as heavy. You can in carpet Rugs on have them in white and most pustel shart enough pulished floor may look very pretty colours, and they're

with i bed- talthough they never do unless the looking to do away room is large), but they

not spread. comfortable, and carpeting can

be

as cheap as almost any loor cover- ing.

。

Have

the

Do you sleep well? That, 7.

of course, is the only ques- tion which matters. But if you don'), you enough room it may be something to do with the for

clothes? So room, the fornishing the bed, your many bedroonis are always, untidy dvcoration, simply because there is not enough

Chronic insomnia can begin over: putting-away room, and often the

more something quite silly, like putting owner's excuse is that any cupbonds will make the room look up with a ticking clock, being wor- ried by the idea that a picture hung- too mall.

lug over your bed may not be quite

But things lying about crowd a secure,

the

Aristocrat of Jellies

Housewife's A

Scrapbook

THE house of the future will probably dispense with kettles, beenuse boiling water will flow from the taps. The latest gas heater boils fresh water for tea

making, or any other purpose,

within 40 seconds, at the useful flow of 2 pints a minute.

Not only does it boil to order:

but turn of the three-point

fo the flow control Increasea half a gallon a minute for piping- ly hot washing up requirements, tate

water for shaving, or the night bottle fillings.

The third setting at "warm" brings over gallon a minute at 90 degrees, which fills baby's bato. Friday night's shampoo, and average household requirements. That's what I call fexibility,

A. M.

SPIC jelly and Ascot always go together in novels. In real life aspic goes with a great many other things.

If people are inclined to shun you for eating bowls of jellied eels, explain to them that you are really toying with Jeels in aspic, and wait for the hats to be raised.

For, though the ingredients in 'aspic jelly are slightly more elaborate than those used for jellied eels, the stuff is nothing more than a piquant, savoury jelly which has somehow acquired an aristocratie significance.

It can be bought in many forms which can casily be converted into the finished article with the aid of a little water, but. If you! want to make it exactly to your liking, the only way is to make it entirely yourself.

Depends on your Taste

Most aspic jellies are much too acid to my taste, but, if you lind my taste too mild, you can always add more vinegar.

Put a knuckle of ham, a knuckle of veal and a calf's foot into two quarts of water. Add two onions and two carrots sliced, a piece of lemon rind, a bouquet of HE ONCE WEIGHED herbs, iwo blades of mace and a

161⁄2 STONE

dozen black peppercorns. Bring to the boil and skim.

Let it simmer until the stock is reduced to about a pint and a half. Strain it off and stand it aside to

THE fight of the Sunday 21 lbs. Off with Two cool.

joint from the table to the

wolding jaws of the family dog need no longer be one of those things whieli "may happen in the best-regulated households,"

A device for anchoring the meat to the dish enn be had for 1. d. This safely rest, of stain- less metal, screws on to the sides

of the dish, and has saw-like teeth on which the joint sits firmly, so preventing a trapeze act and, In- cidentally, a soiled tablecloth.

BRIGHTENS

THE

DAY

Ewe

MUNICH

Bottles of Kruschen wait till it's Cold

If you are overweight and want to reduce, there is no need to-day to

•

When it in quite cold, take off: put yourself on a drastic diet. Here every particle of fat.

is u letter from a man who is steadily Melt the stock in a saucepan and losing his unwanted fat, yet satisfy-then add to it the slightly beaten ing his appetite to the full. He whites of two eggs, the crushed shells writes:-

of the same, a wine-ginas of sherry,

"After taking two bottles of Krus- and a tablespoonful euch of malt and chen Salts, I have reduced my weight torragon vinegar. from 10% stone to 15 stone. I have

Whisk the whole lot together over made very litle change in my diet,the flame it rises in the pan, then bave only cut out white bread and draw it aside and let it stand for a potatoes and gone on to whole-ment quarter of an hour,

bread.

day. I have four meals n

Strain the liquor through a scalded

The reduction in weight has been so cloth. Repeat until efenr.

beneficial that I can

Dow tle my

shoea without having to put and Has lots of Uses blow after the effort. I hope shortly

to be down to normal weight for a

person aged 50."----F.W.L.

·

Aspie jelly can be chopped up as garnish for cold meats and alads,

in your

A BY WEA BERVICE,

"My wife is gonna be plenty mad. You should have heard her when we was up all night on that warehouse fire."

Joan Beringer's Fifteen Minutes for Beauty

For evening decolletage-

Neck and Elbows

Essential is a decolletage to be proud of at your week-end parties, so the last of the week's beauty treatment is devoted to it.

You will need:

Cuticle softener-nail brush-good fatted soap-bottle of mized-almond-and-olive-vil-or-easily-liquefping-nourishing. cream-face tissues,

FIRST soak a cottonwoul pad in cuticle softener and rub

you rub

your elbows vigorously. Let this dry while cleansing cream into your neck, all round, up and down. off with issues.

into

Wipe

Now scrub your elbows with a well-soaked nail brush. Then make a lather with your hands and work it vigorously your neck. Rinse again and again and then dry. Warm your hands well, take a little oil or cream in your palms and rub into your elbows.

Take more cream, or oil, and for four minutes work it firmly into your neck, massaging upwards towards the throat in front, the nape behind. Grasp the throat firmly, but don't pull the skin.

For two minutes stand erect and rotate your shoulders buckwards. As your shoulders go back, the contours of your throat and under-chin will become clear and youthful.

Ilemave cream from neck and elbows with face tissues. Wipe with astringent. Taking more astringent on your Angers, slap briskly beneath your chin. Then smooth some milk of almonds on neck and elbows, and dust lightly with powder.

Be Warni and Comfortable ̧· in a MORLEY VEST

& PANTIES.

Soft

•

Warm

Good Fitting

.

Good Looking

No Irritation

. No Shrinking

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WING ON CO., LTD.

Kruschen is a scientific blend of six it can be used to mask cold cutlets, THE mineral salts found in the waters of chiclters' legs, or fillets of fish, and those European Spas which have is the inaking of many cold entrees been used by generations of over-nnd savouries.

and other Cut into stars İstout

fancy reduce weight. to people

the last touch of Before the first bottle of Kruschen in shapes, it nekis

sandwiches and Anished, the fat starts lo go. Then, decoration to the month after month, the scales, tell snacks which go with cocktails. the same story-a few pounds less of superfluous flesh to burden the body.

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