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YOUR HOME IS YOU

O you ever find yourself winking you If so, beware, for if your life is to make senac your home must be a suceers.

Your home in you. You make your home and your home makes you. It is at once the reflection and engineer of pour personality.

An article the other day said that we akosid learn to pull up the drawbridge at

mmet, that the icoman who can make her

that tour we can make her

thing to be proud about. Successful home making is something more than interior An decorating. It in a way of living. attitude to life.

Do everything you can to make your home comfortable. Take a look at it right now and ace what you can do to improve it. Don't save your best home comforts

1

for other people. None of this nonscn1E0 of keeping the parlour for visitors. Don't use the best dinner service just to impress quests. Impress yourselves instead.

Use your home; stay in it as much as you can. Turn it into a port of call for your friends; playing host in a pleu- sant enough game. And everything like that makes you more interested in your home, more happy in yourself..

Change your furniture-

it's like having

ND when I think he's going

"AN

to make a row, I always change the furniture round." "I heard some one say that when I was a child.

I thought for a long time afterwards that it was some sort of superstitioa, and when I hurd done anything wrong at home I used to move a chair or two.

It's only lately that it's dawned on me that the lady who made that cryptle re- mark probably meant that if she thought her husband was going to be angry with her she would change the furniture round so that he was angry about that instend

of about what originally annoyed him. A very good idea.

What not to do

I AM sometimes shown into

front rooms which would make me angry without me having been in a temper about something; else before-hand. There are hun- dreds of things called living rooms in which no one has ever wanted to Ilve.

Rooms not so bad in shape, with a bay window, a couple of arm- chnirs, a sofa, a small table, a sort of cupboard sideboard arrangement, a dining-room table, a couple of small chairs, a pleture or two, a care pet, hearthrug." and the usual fire- place and duor.

itcoms with all the smart furni- ture of the house in them, furniture that a no smart no one dares to use

It.

I must say I don't blame the hus- bands, in some of the houses I have neen, for not wanting to sit at home at night.

After a hard day

ET'S look at the worst side of

things first. Mr. Footer bas

FOUR

WAYS

WITH

ONE

ROOM

had a hard day's work. By seven thing which looks

o'clock he's home and longing to dental plates stretch his legs in a comfortable

a

new

A. Here's the room arranged

in the conventional

manner, with the large table in the midle, taking up too much room. Armchairs too for off for conversation.

C.

A sensible arrangement

for summer. The table

is in the bay window. The chairs and soft

are grouped for conversan

tort.

room

B. Another conventional way, but slightly better. Sofa is placed for reading by daylight in summer months. Armchairs are grouped within speaking distance

D.

A better still summer Table Arrangement.

m buy for meals.” Sideboard cup. board near dour. Smull table handy for ashtrays and books.

whale's most of the arrangements here show the the reading and sitting part of the

like

a armchairs, arc

armchair. He goes into the "living" oblong is a dining table, the smaller room ranged round the fireplace.

two

room, stretches his legs in the arm- oblong is the cupboard, the chair, and kicks over a small table things like buckets are hard, upright and smashes to pieces an expensive chairs, the circle is

And while I'm on the subject of small table, sitting and reading I must mention

but horrible wedding present that The white oblong in front of the fire- lights. A single light in the centre place is a heartb-rug. The black re- of the room generally means too was resting on the table.

presents carpeted area.

I

He moves to the sofa, but so soon

as he has got himself comfortable Make a surprise

and has spread out the paper to read,

he finds that he can't see to read, as the light is in the wrong place. He tries to shift the sofa round and Anda

much light where a lot of light is not wanted, and not enough light where it is wanted. You can change the appearance of your room at night TM supposing that you don't completely by a simple disposal of

want to spend any money,

the lumps.

himself Imprisoned among armchairs but want to turn your living room Have a portable lamp fixed by a into something new looking and more flex from the centre ceiling light and comfortable.

carried down the wall to the nearest

and tables.

He goes out

I feel pretty sure that ninety-nine table to the chairs or sofa, and have TE picks his way out only to out of a hundred houses with this another portable lamp for the dining Hat he has rucked up the middle as shown in A and B.

sort of living room have a table in table. the carpet while moving the turni- This arrangement is

ture.

survival from A few don'ts'

A living room? "Stone walls the days of large rooms. It's all very do not a prison make, Nor Iron bars well if the room is u good size. a cage." I don't wonder that Mr. Otherwise it takes up too much room. Pooter goes out.

Here's an example,

THE pictures here are plans of

ቤኒ

average living room; 1

Turn it into two

have as little furniture in the way of chairs and tables as possible.

(3) The room must not, on the other hand, be like a hospital ward, so don't leave it quite bare. If you don't mind dusting and if you are proud of ornaments, have them by all means, but do not put things where they block out the light from the window and are Stick Itable to be knocked over. them on shelves built into recesses.

(4) The walls must not be too drchry either. If you have pic- tures, hang them all together so that they cover the whole surface of one wall from the eye level up- wards. And let the picture-hung wall be the one which you face most often.

THERE are not many practical

ways of arranging a limited Make it homely

amount of furniture in a small room. Some people, in their eagerness to alter the appearance of a room, think turn the room into two any change is for the better. unlts. One part of the room

If you want your husband to enjoy have taken the room to be twelve will be for eating or sitting and writ- sitting in the living-room at home! fect broad and fourteen feet long, ing, the other for getting warm by There is a bay window, a door in the Bre and reading. from the hall which opens inwards to the room and is hung so that it does not open against the wall.

On the wall opposite the door is a thick black wedge; this marks the fireplace.

(1) There must be no draughts,

the room.

FINALLY, if you want the liv

ing-room really to be lived in, think of it as you would of your kitchen-as a practical room, not only as a museum of your family pleces.

Of course, your room may not be so don't put his favourite chair in For instance, why not turn the

a direct line between the fireplace the exact dimensions of this given sents in your, window-if there are

and where most draughts blow into here. You may have more or less any seats-into seals at the table in

furniture, odder or larger, or smaller shuped rooms. These drawings are the summer months, as shown in D or C? A room looks much larger

(2) The room must not be a only to give you some ideas about once the central space, is clear.

which how to shift the furniture. bric-a-brac of your husband will knock over in a moment of absence of mind;

The fireplace is really the natural

chairs and chairs. the magnet for

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Mash a banana with one teaspoon- ful of finely chopped mint, pepper and malt to taste, and spread between thin slices of brown bread and butter.

Wash a few leaves of mint and lay thein on thin slices of cheese put between buttered sandwich fingers or aliced bread and butter.

Cover cheese or savoury biscuits with mint butter, and serve at your next party or after dinner. To make the mint butter, cream two ounces of butter and one teaspoonful lemon fulee. Mix in one dessertspoonful of finely chopped mint.

When mint is plentiful, a supply of mint jelly should be made for winter use. Strip the leaves from n bunch of mint

steep them in en- ough boiling water to cover them, and leave at least an hour. Keep the basin closely covered during sleeping. Allow one cupful of water, half a cupful of sugar, the juice of half lemon, and huit an ounce of gelating to each cupful of leaves. Dissalve

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syrup, strain the water soaked mint leaves Into this, then boil rapidly for ten minutes, or until the jelly sets when tested on a cold plate.

Add the lemon julee. Put into nols, but do not seal up until cold. Make mint sauce for winter use by belling the vinegar and allowing it to cool before adding to the chop- ped mint and sugar. Put into bottles and store in a cool, dry cupboard. D. F.

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Melt a nut of butter in a fireproof dish, put in a layer of bolled rice and molsten with tomato sauce.

Sprinkle grated cheese on top and then put in the herring fillets. Sea- con them with pepper and salt, and cover with another layer of boiled rice, tomato sauce, and cheese.

Bake in A moderate oven for fifteen minutes, then brown under the grill.

Ways With New Vegetables

TEVER pare carrots, as much of

the flavour lies next the skin. They should be lightly scraped or scrubbed. Keep in water till re- quired.

When cucumbers are found in- digestible in a raw state, they might be served buttered. Peel the requir ed length, cut into thick pieces, and simmer very slowly in a little butter! for fifteen minutes, keeping the pon; tightly closed. Serve with salad, or as a separate vegetable,

Garden peas should be as nearly as possible all the one size it they IL is also are to cook successfully. important to cook peas immediately after shelling them, and do not cook them too long. Ten minutes should be ample for young peas, tossed into just enough boiling water to cover them. Their delicate flavour is im- proved by adding sprig of mint and a pinch of sugar.

French benns should not be shredded before cooking, or their flavour will disappear. Simply nlp off up and stalk end, and pull off any string. Throw into enough boiling salted water to cover and add a little sugar to keep the colour good, Drain and shake in a pan with butter until dry.

A novel why' of serving young cooked bect-roots is to mash them while hot with a potato mosher.

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The French do not attempt to cook

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we do, but cauliflower divide it up into little flowerets. These are tossed into fast boiling, Balted water for a few moments, and when drained, placed stalks upward on a hot dish. This is inverted be fore being taken to lable, so that the vegetable resumes its former shape while being perfectly cooked,

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