1938-07-05 — Page 2

DRESS UP

to Summer!

LEFT-Practical tailored lines are best for washing frocks. The white spotted one has a gay contrasting scarf and buttons. Note the neat collar and short sleeves of the other in gold-coloured "Spunshine."

RIGHT-The not-so-slims will delight in these two neat new washing frocks. One is floral patterned with

a nice V inset at the throat,

the other is straight and tailored with a wide rever and fancy buttons.

Oil and Vinegar

LET THEM "DRESS" YOUR HOME

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Neggcupful of salad oil in the rinsing water will make wash- leather gloves beautifully soft and supplc.

Either olive or linscod of will revive before polishing.

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Linseed oil will replace lost varnish polished furniture. Rub the marks with oil they disappear, then polish with a soft cloth. This is particularly good for "rings" on tables, though it may take several applications if the marks are severe. The same oil should be rubbed over bals and hockey slicka bufore putting them away.

be

bind fully dried, and their leather

dipped

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Says Mary Grace

UTDOOR enthusiasts are now getting into full swing with grand summer pro- grammes of week-ends spent walking, cycling, and climbing.

Some of them have memories of stiffness of joints, sure throats,

and other annoying allments

suffered on Monday mornings.

Well, it is all a matter of taking care. Almost every ache can be prevented. Bo my advies is that prevention is better than cure.

There are no sufferers from digestive and liver disorders amongst those who cycle and hike. Their troubles are mainly of the minor accidental kind.

Painful feet, inflamed eyes, ntist-.

and occasionally, throat troubles are not serious complaints, but they certainly limit the joys

Those who intend to spend their

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of the open road.

the

in

brussels

Shabby or mildewed books, bould will not miss the horse-radish sauce.

A spoonful of vinegar rubbed with a soft cloth washing water will clean in oil of lavender.

sprouts and cauliflowers more easily Vinegar is an excellent "brightener." than salt. To prevent cheese from Add a

a little to the water when going mouldy wrap it a clean cloth washing coloured garments, and which has been squeezed out in after cleaning a carpet wipe over vinegar. with a cloth wrung out of warm In summer, wash over the new water and vinegar. You will be joint

with a solution of vinegar and When putting away new Jam, soak also the perfect rounds of tissue paper in vinegar and

amazed how this will bring up the water. colours.

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A dessertspoonful of Iny on top of the jam. Cover in the

it when baking, and one eg will do usual way and store in a dry place, the work of two.

and you will never be troubled with Mix it with Anely grated white mould. turnip and a little mustard, and you.

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T'S washing frock time, aren't you glad? I've made a special run of the shops for bargains. So that you can really be up to date for Whitsun.

How cheap they are and how pretty. Just look at the sketches,

They are all in a new material, called "Spunshine," which washes and looks exactly like spun silk.

You can have them patterned or plain, and they are all to be found at Pontings.

The first two are for average sizes; that is, hips 40, 42 or 44 inches. The spotted one has a contrasting scarf and buttons with the long sleeves.

The colours are navy, black, brown, lido, wine and green,

Next the tailored yoke style, with short sleeves, in white, champagne, peach, green, saxe, gold, brown and navy.

Now for the matronly figured and youthfully-minded. See how trim and slim making they are! The floral patterned one has a white vestee and the grand colours are navy, black, royal, wine, green and brown.

The plain one has most unusual collar and becoming straight front with fancy but tons.

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The colours are gold, duck egg, saxe, champagne, brown and navy.

There are also larger sizes, hips 56 to 60 inches.

SUNSHINE

AND WRINKLES

WARM WEATHER BEAUTY CARE

QUNSHINE may make the flowers grow and bring the roses out in all their beauty, but to you and me it more often brings sunburn and

rinkica! The first

Bral we can tolerate, especially it we control it to a gentle, becoming sun-tan. But wrinkles-who in all the world of women wants them?

Yet they come with the first sunny days, oven to young women. We screw up our eyes to the bright

sky we bask in the park or the garden, has a middle-aged supply of crow's and by evening the once-smooth face

feet, frown lines, and furrows across nothing about curing them until it the forehead. And generally we do; is too late!

Work in a Good Light

than cure.

Prevention is, of course, better So wear sun-glasses now and put them on every time you feel an Inclination to screw up your eyes. Weur a wide-brimmed hat to shield your eyes, and don't work or read in a bad light. If you must read in bed, see that you have a clear, un- shaded light whose rays fall dircet on the page and never on your face.

Wrinkles are caused by the muscles dra drawing themselves together in an effort to protect the delicate organe of the eyes. If you protect them; with glasses or a shady hat, the muscles will not be strained and the skin left smonth and unruffled.

done, too, but it needs time and care. Night and morning bathe your eyes in

As for curing wrinkles, that can be

solution of a

a good eye fotion and worm water. At night when you pot In your skin-food, pay particular attention to the soft stin Beneath your eyes and at the outer corners, Be careful not to drag the skin, and wash off the greasy cream with an

stringent lotion or good soap and

water before you go to bed. Morning Treatment

In the morning, pat round the eyes Ith on anti-wrinklo cream or a

All are really good wearers muscle oll if your wrinkles are very and a couple of these frocks deep. Allow it to remain on while should last you through the any longer than an hour at the most

summer.

After the Hike..

Prevent That

Stiffness

By a PHYSICIAN

tetsure hours hiking must have serviceable feet. Some people are subject to bilsters and abrasions, and this is because their feet are beny and thinly covered.

Those whose feet are chubby and

afford well-covered

to take liberties.

To them the choice of shoes and stockings or cocks is not of so much importance.

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Shors must fit well. They should be worn into the shape of the foot long before a hiking holiday la undertaken. Walk in Comfort

The uppers should be saft and well- oiled with castor oil. The soles should ba thick, Woollen socks or stockings, two pairs if you like, should be worn, and the toes must not be cramped in the process.

On a long tour these should be changed every day.

Bathe the feet in cold water every evening and after the day's hike, change into slippers,

not bath, but after the second day's Muscle stiffness will pass off with n march there should be no recurrence.

Those Tired Eyes

Painful eyes may result from the glare of the sun or from dust and wind or from all three.

If sun glare alone causes the trouble

tinted glassen should be worn,

The

best kind are either the yellow coloured

Jenses or the "smoket.

Dust and wind often sets up in. flammation and conjunctivitis may result. This is best treated by bath- ing the eyes with boracle lotion.

Use an eyebath, filling it up to the

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top, then holding it firmly over the eyes while you open and ahnt them in the lotion,

Cold compresses, which can be made by soaking a clean folded handkerchief in cold water, applled to eyes give great relief when there Is much smarting.

Avoid Throat Trouble

cyclist often visits his doctor on Lastly, the week-end hiker or

Monday morning complaining of hoarseness or dryness ΟΣ the throat.

This is usually the result of dust. aggravated, perhaps, by a too hearty enthusiasm at the evening sing-song. A good deal of this trouble may be prevented by washing out the mouth and gargling the throat with plain water during the journey.

Before drinking during halts the mouth should be rinsed out in this way. Once the damage has been done gargle the throat with some malid antiseptic solution such as glycerine of thymol

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Steradent

you take your bath and dress-nat

And

then remove gently with a pad of cotton wool soaked in astrin- Do this every morning and you will be amazed how quickly the wrinkles are smoothed out.

Keep

gent.

eyes

the treatment up all summer and

feel your ume you every strained by close work or strong Hight,

Choose an anti-wrinkle cream that is made with eggs, or the juice of avodaco pears, There are plenty of good mukes on the market at prices from 35 0d to 3s 6d, and as a beauty. ald in summer-time they are well worth the price.

Go to bed carlier during the summer, and if you can possibly manage It, sleep for about an hour in the afternoon, in the shade. And you have childish habit of scowl- ing or looking worried over nothing at all, stop it now. Get the whole family lo stop you; watch yourself in the mirror. But keep wrinkles at bay by being happy and keeping away from glaring light,

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Anne Blythe

AIDS TO COOKING

N excellent substitute for an egg poacher can be made by holding over a pan of boiling water, a but- tered in that is ordinarily used for small cakes.

If an egg has a very thin shell, or is chipped, add a few drops of vinegar to the water to prevent it emcking when boiling.

Cover the left-over yolks of eggs with cold water and they will keep fresh until next day without forming. il skin.

Milk is not so likely to boil over

the top of the saucepan is alightly

greased.

with hot water but do not dry it.

If butter is hard, rinse a basin

Then

the

place it over the bulter when the steam

will coften it without causing any waste.

To Increase the flavour of stewed pears, frst peel and place them In cold water. After making a good syrup, add the juice of two lemons to each pint, place the pears in Uls and stew gently until tender.

After bolling salt beef, leave two or three cooked carrots in the liquid until cold for they will absorb the salt so, that it can be used for soup.

from burning

An old saucer placed in a saucepan will

puddingtom.

and sticking to the

auet

When boiling a auet pudding, add of orange peel, for not only

a slice

will

it collect all the

'all the grease, but the

pudding will be muc

be much lighter.

If a frying pan has too much fat in it, add a pinch or two of fine salt,

for it

it will prevent the greuso splut-

tering over the stove.

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Burnt fai can be used again for frying

If a poeled raw

raw potato dropped into the heated fat to re- move all traces of

of burning When

almonds for cakes, blanching plunge them in a bowl of boiling water for a few minutes, then drain off the water and pour cold water over them. After"a fow minutės, rub

briskly

in a coarse towel to re move the softened skins.

If vegetables or fruits have stained the hands, rub them with Anu oatmeal moistened with lemon Juleti before washing in the ordinary way, when the marks will speedily dia- appear..

G. T.

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