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What a Yawn!

MIDGE

This little chap was up too late last night.

Ho is greeting the day with

ช

yawn

instead of a smile.

Up too late last night!

HIS little man has had a

THIS

busy day---because the sum- mer sunshine makes the garden And the park a glorious place to be in he plays an hour longer every day.

But look at the result.

He is a tired boy in the morning--although he was in no hurry to go to sleep the night before.

Mothers write asking me what to du with children whose routine is upset by the longer days.

Some have difficulty in getting youngsters off to sleep, others say their children are becoming pale and listless because they are using

ADVICE ON FAMILY

PROBLEMS

by

Our Nursery Expert

up too much energy while dashing around in the spring sunshine.

The problem of getting children off to sleep in an acute one in muny house- halda.

Unless the younger members of the family have settled down quietly thero Je little chance of the parents having an undisturbed evening. Yet it is im- portant for mothers and Inthers who have worked hard all day to have a few hour relaxation.

Here in a case of this kind sent to me by a worried young mother, who says her evenlogs are being spoilt

Do You Know Keep's Awake

Yourself?

PIE other day I was in the cont-

THE

My toddler used to drop off to sleep Immediately he was tucked up for the night but when he goes to bed Rear nights. It is still light and he just sils

We have 20 up and plaga in his cof peace in the evening.

Action, Artleist darkness must b provided as it is the daylight out-e that is making baby wakeful

pany of a woman whs had sub-HERE can be only one line of mitted herself to the camera, and who barl just received the Hirst prints, or proofs, of the result. She is by nature shy of caneras, and faces the photographer with great reluctance.

Her remark us she glanced at the proofs was one which most of us have heard in such circumstances-"Do really look like that?"

It is a fairly common observation because, I suppose, most of us can have only it vague or an entirely in- accurate Idea of how we appear to the eyes of others.

Of course, there is the mirror into which we look at least unce a day, for even a man cannot dispense en. That Brely with a looking gliss. reflects our image, and so we ought to be familiar with our aspect.

Yes, we ought to be, and so we should be were it not for the per- verse instinct of mankind to argue with facts when he finds them un- palatable. I have heard men declare that the mirrors of tailors and hair- dressers have

malevolent quality that makes the reflection a stimulent to trade. The mirror of the tailor, they pay, makes one look halby; the glass of the hairdresser makes one look Ill-groomed.

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How far women are convinced by their mirrors, I have never been able to discover; but I cannot say 1 have found them more rendy than men to accept distasteful facts.

Idealising Ourscives

The trouble is that most of us Each of us cor- idealise ourselves. ries about a subconscious picture of himself or herself and, as it is a ple- of his or her own painting, it is ture usually more flattering than the one offered

by the mirror,

Thus it may be that we never quite sce ourselves as we are.

We deceive ourselves. before the glass, and, even when the photo grapher has done his best when with his cunning devices he has made us

It is a good plan to stretch a pe of dark blue duck or casement ex di over a light frame: this can then be clamped to the inside of the window window has been trame after the

opened for Fresh air.

Tako baby into the darkened bed- room and he will fall asleep un sonindly

A he would do in mut-winter. Late Hours

I have to chuldren aged len autt eight. I notice that, though they kept At on the whole during the winter, ther tend to act listiess and pale as the spring advances. They go to bed ele and a half hours later in summer than they do is winter.

E trouble is that the children are getting less sleep. Children of Outs age play energetically all day long using lungs and muscle and making very severe demands on their energy.

Because of insufficient sleep this lost energy is not being properly replaced.

Actually, children need more rest and not less during the warmer months of the year. If the children are f[x] old for a day nap. day should be trained to rest quietly for at least hit an hour after the mid-day meal and

than half an hour.

time should not be altered by more

Tired Out

My son of 11 plays caries twice a week at school and loves them, find. done out" on however. that he is those evenings, and he finds it Rost difficult to get of to sleep-Doncaster. PROM other remarks in your letter I gather that this boy always bas had a tendency to over-excitement nted a diaplay of "nerves."

You should report the present alate of affairs to the headmaster, because too much strain is being put on the our friends.

boy. This is likely to have unsaLİR. inctory results later on.

I can recommend a good nerve tools for him if you will write to me. Let him have a warm bath in the evening (not hat), and turn on the cold tap to cool down the water before he gets out. This treatment is soothing, und will help him sleep.

Refuses to Eat

My little girl of four has begun to Attend a kinderparten class in IC Morning, She likes, but in se vr cited that she often refuses to cat her dinner. Sometimes she tooks terribly incary and heavy-eyed at bedtimc. What's Best7

A your four-year-old only goes to school from 9 an. to 11.45 am. there should be time for a quiet rest before her dinner,

Bring her home, take off track and any other garment that is likely to re- strict her, and let her lie down in her dressing-gown in a darkened room,

She will probably drop off to sleep. but, if she doesn't, she will be reating

"You can't sec me--I'm looking awful this morning."

mind and body. Get her up just before her 1 pm dinner-time, wash hands and face and then she will prob ably sit down and enjoy her ineal,

The afternoon can be spent in quiet play in the garden with a short walk before she goes to bed.

Only Child

I am worried shaut a small niece who is an only child. She refuses to play 10174 any chita companions ough there are two nice children of her own age living next door. She just hangs round the grown-ups, lia. tening to their conversation and often On the subjce! ofers her opinion under discussion,

THE child's parents should deal with this problem by refusing to dis- cuss anything before her. If there are matters that must be talked over before the child goes to bed she should be sent out of the room,

She should be clearly told that grown-up conversation is not for chil tiren' cara. Once this is done the ebild will be forced to make friends with children of her own age. She could be encouraged at first by her parents giving a tile party and in- viting other children to meet her.

Spoilt Boy

NON spent siz My thrp-year-old months with his grand-parents while i inas away on a business trip with my husband. Inom find that he refuses to play by himself an expects to be amused. Unless I arrange games and play them rotth him, he dora Ultle else but loll about or else he will deliber- ately breakle up his topa.

YOUR son has got into bad waya.

You must be rm with him and makes on he check the demanda uthers.

A spirit of destruction is best car. rected by fostering the child's construc tive efforts. There are many simple toys which will teach him to build up and put together.

This is sometimes heat learned with the simple objects chosen by the youngster himself.

High Heels Or Low?

EXPERTS DISCUSS WOMEN'S INTERESTS

Corsets,

and for

NOIFFURES,

Dich ermu "A Flower on a Tall, Slim Stem" Bines, powder and paint, and

"We say that the flat base of the high heels--arguments against these vagaries of fashion date foot is artistically designed to stand almost from their #rst appearance in at right angles to the vertical body.

In certain exercises, such as toe dine the story of clothing.

ing for example, the right angle is For the purpose of examining the merged into an unbroken, vertical question of high heels i called tone and the body appears like gether a council of three; a ductor, beautiful flower on a tall, slim stem. in aesthete. and an historian. My We have no quarrel with that. aesthetic friend was something of a walking discloses the unsuitability und the ugliness of the high heel, fashion expert.

The few inches which Naturally, I asked the doctor to gains in height are dearly paid for speak first, and this is what he said: in the loss of a graceful walk.

- think our other friend here (the aesthete) will have more to say about

Bul

the woman

BREAKFAST BRAIN- WAVES

"No

JO appetite for breakfast" is a common complaint of our hurrying age, and It is apt to be worse at this time of the year.

Yet for active people, breakfast is a meal that should not be neglected. It need not be large, but a certain amount of nourishing food should be Included. This is particularly Im-! portant where growing boys and girisi are concerned.

Muny of them are not fond of fried bacon by itself, but will eat it with Slices attractive accompaniments. of apple or banana rolled in flour and sugar (or sait if preferred) can be fried in the fat and make plen- sant change from frled bread, tomatoes, and potatoes. Peas, left over from dinner the day before are also very good fried in bacon fat,

Bacon and prune rolls are a real

the novelty. Soak

prunes, cook them not too well in unsweetened the stoneя and roll water, remove cach one up in a very thin rasher of streaky bacon. Keep this in place tiny cocktail stick or with a

uny skewer; bake or grill the rolls, and serve them on toast. Some people Ike them better still if an almond is put in each prune in place of the slone.

Fish Dishes

Fish makes change from bacon, and haddock and egg melange is different from most fish dishes served for breakfast. Bake a medium-sized smoked haddock in a baking-in with

and of milk

pat of half a pint butter. 11

will take about twenty Finke minutes

moderate a mo

aven. it, after removing the skin and bone, and put it into a saucepan with the milk in which it was cooked. Add two well-beaten eggs and stir the

low mixture over

heat until 1 thickens. Serve on slices of hot but- fered toast.

for Agh disti unusual Another breakfast is made with cod, apples, and grated cheese. Have the Ash cut into small steaks, arrange the pieces in a buttered ple-dish and sprinkle them with salt, pepper, and lemmun juice.

Cover them with grated cooking! apples, sprinkle grated cheese on top! and bake the dish in a brisk oven for about twenty-five minutes. Put top and few puts of butter on brown under the grill,

This may sound a strange mixture, but most people who try it are sur- prised to find it delightfully tasty.

Books As Decorations

MODE

our

W. B.

[ODERN book bindings have a decorative value in our sitting- rugs, and the day is long past when

the

Were house all the books In relegated to the library,

But apart from the beauty of their

reach ut our books within coloured bindings, we like to have

So we soun And favirite chalr. that one of the most suitable ploces

place. for storing books is near the fire-

The recesses on either side of the be atted up fireplace may readily

to match the with built-in bookshelves. Often the shelves are painted Idea is not practicable, then white woodwork in the room, but if this or cream painted shelves show up very the colours of the books in a pleasing manner.

"Not long ago I compared the man- this subject than I. After all, what ner of walking of some fashionable

in bedrooms, or in small sitting- but few books ind does it matter if women want to ruin women of Bukharest with that of the

rooms where their feet. They will not die from gipsy girls who were selling news- that! Dactors have grown weary in papers in the streets. In the one their fight against the dangers of saw a painful, affected, stilted style, their way, single, bracket shelves velvet. The These shelves may be of wood, or fushion and the eternal woman never and in the other a graceful glide, full make a good resting place for them.

of rhythm, soft helps, but always hinders us.

natural movement of feet of the gipsy in some Instances, they are of rather with the graceful thick glass, with chromlum supports. Where fitted shelves are not cult- "From the opinions of many ex- girls blended perts nowadays you would think that rhythm of the body. If you have high heels have become a necessity seen a Lenglen or a Helen Wille able and there is not much space, to the modern woman. But we enn- Moody gliding over the tennis court, book shelves may be combined with not allow our judgment to be so dis- you must have been fascinated by the other nieces of furniture.

Under Rinind Table torted, when we know that the grace of her movements. human foot is being made into a

Tho high heet, in our opinion, may

Thus we see small round tables, travesty of itself. The high heel

certain occasions, shortens the base of the fool, while be excused on the front part is cramped and too when wearing evening dress, for in which have plain, circular tops, and much weight is thrown upon the ball. stance, or in certain styles of dancing, one or two shelves fited beneath for being pieces of furniture which consist of The toes are often bent; they slip but for walking-never! When or books. There are also combination forward and are even forced over dinary everyday clothing le

worn, the high heel is an aesthetic a desk, drawers, and bookshelves-- and under one another.

offence. Many women have known all taking only a small amount of that for a long time." Historical Influences

Unsightly Feet

Брасс.

looks a little better than we are, we have echoed his longing, but I do not the foot cannot move naturally, and appear greater than he or she really complete in itself, or equally suitable |

ask, incredulously, "Do I really look Ilke that?"

"When the

Roman

and

have

We also find "streamlined" radio or gramophone cabinets which have "The big toe is pushed out of its

what might otherwise be waste space thus causing position, natural

and This brings to the historical side underneath, turned into bookshelves. muscles

very useful bunions, unsightly

Then there are those sinews are contracted, and the heel of the question. "The origin of the

units cach portion being of the foot hardly ever touches the high heel," the historian told me, "is movable bookshelves, which you can

obtain in high heel makes to be found in the eternally pathetic

to another similar unit. Burns sighed for the power "to see ground. The

for fixing to most useful of

thèse Some of the most oursels as others see us," Others graceful walking impossible because strivings of the human being to

type which are the some women-those who favour the is.

recessed emperors shelves think many have achieved it.

of sliding glass doors That it is beyond mortal capacity very high heel-might be walking on The fictions about ourselves which for a woman to see herself as she stiltal A medium low heel le neither wanted to increase the stature

harmful to health nor does it inter- their questionable personalities they handles thereby carrying out the

But "streamlined" idea,

Agnes Allison most of us cherish extend beyond really is, I do not belleve. But it re-

used to wear very thick soles. personal appearance. They embrace quires more courage and a greaterfere with graceful movement, Que characters, and the impressions love of truth than most of us possess.

The harmdone by. high heels, the high heel came into prominence Onlooker which we make upon the minds of'

however, may be relatively small, with the baroque period, an age of It all depends upon how much you extravagant architectural design and Use your feet. A certain American an epoch when the luxury demands

Agure CANTON AGENTS woman, who always walked with the of the insignificant human ald

sticks, and in any ease finds were not always wisely made. That high was the age of long wigs and high walking difficult whether in heels or in shoes with no heels at all, heels. once said to me:-'Oh, I don't walk much. I always prefer to get about

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"As soon as that period pussed, the

in the Rolls-Royce!" That is another men, characteristically enough, gave point of view."

The

nestheto

WIS

up wearing high heels, but for the woman the high heel. has been as the second attractive voguo ever since. Whe-

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speaker. "Is it compatible with the thier this fashion will disappear with WM. FARMER & Co.

a

Intelligence of woman," he asked, "to the procent generation, as so many hide it functionless fast, stunted in other false ideals of beauty have dis Krowth, under beautiful shoe? appeared, remains to be seen. Per- Can anything be colled beautiful, haps the more hygienie and more which is conairucted on the pull-and. sensible view will prevail."

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