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DOWN to the BEACH

A gipsy handker chiol closely tied over the hair is a popular sunbath-

ing bead-dross.

Broop

by

MARY GRACE

in

These

EA shore outfits this year

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13 as two-sided are penny. Once on the bench you can play round in rompers or sun sult as scanty us you please.

But going down to the beach or walking sodately along the pro- menade you must wear a wrap as long and an ample as your grand- mother's dressing gown.

For young girls there are buttoned skirts with cleverly arranged sun- bathing tops-many of the latter are Just long brightly coloured scarves, folded crossover fashion and led round the wals, or two different shades are made up into a waistcoat shape. We show one of the newest Over here, a laced halter brassière. this is worn bolero coat and sometimes beneath the skirt are full- skirted shorts.

Sketched is a long beach dress of Imly Victorian cl, made in red and white stripet cotton with all the edges bound with black. In the bag to match, you can pick your bathing suita and the paraphernalia one taken down1 to the beach. Next to this outfit as n beach dress of pink linen with turquoise rope straps. The skirt tr alt with wide pizata elther side.

Below is a typical sun bathing dress la ruyal Blue, insets down each se are of course black net similar to that uscil for Ashing nets. The natural- straw hat Lies under the chin and 013 top of crown with black ribbon.

Don't you like, too, the new aviator eye-shades, cut cut of oiled silk?

This summer it's the fashion on the bench to keep your head covered Headgear like the easy one sketched is worn. Just a kerchief knotted on the forehead or tled under the chin,

Vivid sunbathing suit în royal blue with panels or course fishing net lot in at the siblos.

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COSMETIC CARE

POWDER, rouse, and lipstick

must be chosen so that it suits each individual akin. There is no other really sailsfactory way to obtain the best results,

A very fine skin needs a very fine powder, whereas a some. what dry skin should have a foundation of cold cream in place of the usual vanishing cream. Practically all powders now may bo had In avery conceivable And once you have de- shaile. termined which one is best in your case, keep to it.

Vanishing creams need careful selection and application otherwise when the powder Is applied, a palchy effect is pro- duced.

Use only a very little vanish- Ing cream, and then smooth it over and allow it to soak in for a few minutes before dusting on the powder.

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The proper gloring of metles so that they are always

condition and produce the best results is an important polat.

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Creams exposed to the alr quickly lose their freshness and efficacy, and the fragrance dis- appears. Most Dowders notorious collectors of dust, while powderpuffs, tollet sponges, &c., become clogged, and in that state do more harm than good.

Face powders, too, should be кере perfectly dry if the ment is to be made of them. If exposed to a steamy almosphere they are likely to cake and lose their re- freshing qualities.

When lack of accommodation for storing one's beauty perqui- sites is a drawback, cosmetics should be bought in small quan- titles so that they may be used up fairly quickly-at least before

hey have time to go wrong. means buying oftener, of course. But one is always sure of the freshness of new cosmeties, even in very small quantities.

Freshness counts for more than good is usually imagined, if effects are to be achieved.

I. P. II.

Banishing Grease Spots

THE old-fashlond remedy for getting rid of grease spots by using a hot iron over brown paper is a great help occasion- ally, but there are times when something else is needed. Sup- pose, for instance, you get grease on your smart brown leather sports shoes-not much help to be hoped for from a hot iron then, is difficult to get grease out of leather, but the very best thing to try ia French chalk.

Rub it energetically into the spot, then leave the part for twenty-four hours, well coated with the stuff. At the end of that time brush it all off, and, clean the shoes with a good brown polish or cream.

If a polished table becomes greasy so that it cannot be polished nicely, wash it thoroughly with a warm soap Dry flake lather, using a sponge. with equal thoroughness, then polishi In the usun! way. Do not touch it with the polish until it is perfectly dry.

For grease on a carpet try the brown paper and iron remedy first. Have really absorbent paper; the very thin or shiny kind is not much use. Clean blotting paper absorbs double grease well, too. Place a layer both underneath the spot and on top of it, then press with a very

the

soaks warm tron. As

grease through

move the paper to get a clean place over the spot.

A grease splash on wallpaper calls for French chalk, dabbed on thickly, und left for twenty-four hours. Brush off with a scrupulously clean dusting brush, and, if necessary, re- peat the challeng

Working Out the Answers

Arithmetic and grammar exercises

When grease gets spilt over on a TT is natural that mothers should

wish their children to make good are a rather difficult problem. Here progress at school, yet many think Parents are sorely tempted to work kitchen table (sometimes a jar of hot that the best way of furthering this out the exercise themselves, and to dripping will get upset, for instance), it quickly enough, to dowse it with wish is to assist them in the actual check their results with those obtain it is quite a good trick if you can do

ed by the scholar. No

plenty of cold water. This hardens homework. of preparation

is not to be This method

the fat at once and prevents It soak- grenter mistaite could be mutie.

it is hardly couraged;

fair to the g into the wood. The set fat in

Ing

table By all means supervise their home- child himself, let alone his teacher.

then scraped off, and the

way. This usual work. See that they do it thorough- A much better method is for your scoured in the ty and neatly, yet except in the case children to check

remedy is good also for fat spilt on an ollcloth-covered floor. Let them do their sums a different

For

a grease-spattered stove there so, then their lessons will lose all in way, or work back from the result

or

is nothing to beat a brisk rubbing terest-for there is nothing that obtained to the starting point, and with crumpled newspaper, but if ces one to stick to a task better then check their answers. In the the fat is very thick, or has been

of the very young do not let them themselves. expect your actual help. If you do

forces

their answers

than the mere act of puzzling it out same way, encerclaca by constant left for any length of time, It wil

other written

only come off satisfactorily when

them to check

спес for oneself.

textbooks. And Supervising, home lessons, of reference to rules

But though you refuse to help the stove is scrubbed with very hot course, means more than just sitting

water, with a handful of washing back comfortably in an armchair and them with written exercises, it is a reading a novel! If your child seen wise plan

to encourage your children soda dissolved in it. you doing this, he will resent the to discuss their various problems fact that you are enjoying yourself with other members of the family. while he himself is working.

Show them that you, too, are inter- No, If you wish your children to ested in their work, and they will benefit by homework, you must take become mere interested in it them- the place of their teacher and ask selves.

Above all, don't Ignore the child- them questions on it. Go over their

pelling lesson with them, hear their ren it they ask questions; the child curiosity has once been pootry or their reading lesson, and whose question them on their history and ignored will never regain an interest

In schoolwork. geography.

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