1938-10-28 — Page 2

Ꭰ Ꭺ Ꭱ Ꮶ . CHIC SIMPLE

Peasy to make basic frock for one hundred and one

occasions

make it in dull black crepe, then vary the

YOU will probably agree that it is about time to start making something new for our autumn and winter wardrobe. So to-day's illustration shows a bolero-dress which I think will give excellent service for many months

to come.

If you've never tackled any dressmaking before this is the type of garment to start on--and this is the time of year to start, too, for the shorter evenings mean that many more hours are spent indoors. If you are an old hand at home dressmaking don't think this simple pattern is beneath your notice. It is the very, thing on which to exercise your ingenuity in introducing some touch of originality as far as trimmings and finish are concerned.

I suggest you make both gur. ments up in dull black crepe, for black is the most important foundation shade this season. It is a most adaptable fashion, for it provides a marvellous background for all sorts of ef- fective colour contrasts. it niways looks good,

And

one of the few

If you are people who just can't wear black then choose some very dark. touc shade like purply black or Heal brown, either of which is an almost equally good foil for colour contrasts.

Tho dress itself, as you see from the smaller drawing, is short-sleeved. As such, you may say, not very practical for cold days. But the addition of 3 the bolero In matching fabric Fading transforms it into a useful long-

sleeved frock with the added nd- vantage that if you get hot in

THESE THREE PATTERN SECTIONS MAKE THE FROCK

2

the cinema or at a tea-fight you can slip off the bolero and feel comfortable.

Ooo

Om-

Fleev

Piece

Femal

Back

FROM the diagrams

shown you will gather where the spots and notches are that the dress is made from shown. And, believe me, this is three pattern sections only; one time well spent, for it means piece for the back, one for the you will get your darts, tucks front and a small section for and joinings exactly right. the front facing.

trimmings

Frock and bolero as shown or 39-inch contrast fabric, un- and will therefore give variety Thus cutting-out can't take take the following quantities of less you are size 42, when you to the look of the same frock. long; neither can the stitching 35in, crepe: size 30, 3% yards; will need of a yard. and searning. You will proba- size 32, 4 yards; sizo 33, 34, 4%. bly spend most time in between yards; size 35, 36, 4% yards; these two processes putting in size 38, 40, 41 yards; size 12, tullor's tacks or

chalk marks 4 yards. Plus a yard of 35 mings that are easily movable shape such

Tell Him

He's

A SHORT time a bachelor

friend of mine, about By DALE

CARNEGIE

A girdle of dull scaling- NOW for some sugges. wax-red crepe and a composi- tions about trim- tion clip (in some novelty AS a bunch of grapes) dyed exactly the same tone of red. Red accents black were a special feature of Creed's show and will be in the high-lights of colour schemes this

year.

Good!

self for the Grat

On

time at a bridge A two-colour corded ribbon table. All because I was told I had belt as shown on the dress in the a natural flair for it and the game smaller drawing. Then short was made to seem easy. forty years old, became

lengths of the same two ribbons engaged, and his fiancee per-

could be gathered into tiny SPEAKING of bridge reminds rosettes, mounted in a horizon- suaded him to take some improve."

me hope. That made me want to me of Ely Culbertson. tal row of three or four on

Culbertson's name is n house- belated dancing lessons.

hold word, yet he never would have

narrow strip of book muslin and TELL a child, a husband, or made a profession out of the game safety-pinned in position at the The story of those dancing an employee that he is if a young woman hadn't assured throat, holding the two points of lessons is very interesting. stupid or dumb at a certain him he had a flair for it.

the front opening together. thing, that he has no gift for ing philosophy and sociology but he the two shades of a

In 1022 he tried to get a job tench- We're getting used to combining "The Birst teacher I engaged probably told me the truth. She it, and that he is doing it all couldn't.

fuchsin said I was all wrong; I would just wrong and you have destroyed Then he tried selling coal, and he flower, but they're still smart have to forget everything and be- almost every incentive to try to falled at that.

and will be for many months to in all over again," he told me.

Then he tried selling coffee, and come. he failed at that, too. "That took the heart out of me..

It never occurred to him in those i I had no incentive to go on. So I be liberal with your cacouragement; days to teach bridge. He was not laring about two inches wide,

Buy some

silver tissue col- make the thing seem ensy to do; let only a poor card player, but he was cut, on the other person

know that you also very stubborn.

the blas and tack it The next teacher nay have have falth in his ability to do it, Ile asked been lying; but I like it. She said that he has an undeveloped flair for

so many questions

round the front edges and neck- nonchalantly that my dancing was it-and he w practise unt the

and held so many postmortem line of the bolero so that it folds bit old-fashioned perhaps, but the dawn comes in

examinations that no one wanted at the window in

back in a long collar effect. Ar- fundamentals were all right, and she order to excel.

to play with him, assured me I wouldn't

Then he met

range the ends so that they the rounded love and married her.

corners," Wear a very narrow She nulled how carefully he (silver kid belt on the frock. Mrs. nonlysed his cards and persuaded

quit,

improve,

But use the opposite technique;

have any That is the technique that Lowell teacher, Josephine Dillon, teil in taper off into

pretty bridge J3

trouble learning a few new steps.

Thomas uses.

For example, 1 recently spent the "The first teacher had discouraged week-end with Mr. and me by emplinslsing

at the card table.

my mistakes. Thomas, and I was asked to sit in him that he was a potential genius: The new teacher did the opposite, on a friendly bridge game. She kept praising the things 1 did right and minimising my errors.

"You have a natural sense of rhythm,' she

assured me.

Bridge? 17 Oh, no! No! No!

Not me.

Make another girdle, this time of blue-green chiffon, and tuck I knew nothing about that 11. No! No! No! Impossible)

told Ja little matching length of chif- "Why, Dale, it is no trick at all," so caused him to make a profes- fon in the neckline.

Lowell replied. "There is nothing

that

and me,

It was that encouragement

alone. Culbertson

of bridge. 'You really are a born dancer.'

So, to bridge except memory and judg- without giving offence

you want to change people

You could also make this two- "That dattery was far from the ment..

or arousing piece up in black wool stock- resentment truth, but, at any rate, I'm now a

once wrote a batier dancer than I would

chapter on use

inette. In this case you would have memory. Bridge will be easy for fault you want to correct seem easy wide. For trimmings

cucouragement. Make the need from 2% to 3 yards, 64ins. been if she hadn't told me I had a you." Gatural sense of rhythm.

to correct; make the thing you want

choose And presto, almost before I real- the other person to do reem easy to leather, suede or wool embrol- That encouraged me. That gave ised what I was doing 1 found my do.

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WHY 1 HAVE NOT MARRIED

|Q"

By A Bachelor of Thiriy

UITE frankly, I should like to get

reached married, I

have uge when I am rather tired of so- colled bachelor freedom and often find myself thinking about a home of my own, a wife, a baby and Ben. But, equally frankly, I am

stiff of the average modern girl. She is so utterly elegant from head to toe and wears such an air of sophisticated smartness that i would never dare ask her to marry an ordinary working chap like me and to take on the duties of an or dinary wife and mother.

I know that "polne" is reckoned 013 “ feminine virtue nowadays recond only to cleanliness, and I have the greatest admiration for the beautiful air of cool self-pos505- slon that the modern girl wears, but it is rather difficult for a wife- hunting bachelor to get behind the mask and find out What a girl la really like.

I took one of my sister's frienda out to dinner recently, and she was

so intent • ori preserving an air of sophisticated detechument that she

did not smile once, not really warm-

ty and humanly, the whole evening. I was

like trying to entertain marble statue. I have not

It

il

the

vagueat idea whether she enjoyed herself. Thanks fearfully," she said when I took her hone. been marvellous evening,"

It's

but

there was nothing in her voice or face that told me whether she meant

It. At any rate, she certainly froze the first ne feelings of pleasure that her undoubted prettiness

-had aroused in me, which may, of course, have been her Ident She was 50 impenetrable that I

got no clear impression about her or anything.

Then why, oh why, does the

girl of 20 to 25 sec average giri

seem to think it is bad form to talk about anything that is not trivial or

or superficial? I am not going to be so rush as to say that she is incapable of doing any- thing else. I have a younger sister whose brain is definitely more acute and penetrating than mine or my father's, and she is a pretty average specimen of young womanhood. Interesting and Entertaining

When she is at home she can talk

most interestingly and entertainingly about almost any tople under the sun, but to hear her at our tennis club you would'think she had not got two

ideas in her pretty head. I am quite sure the devastatingly bright and witty remarks about elathes, and boyfriends, and Alms, which form the bulk of her conver- sation there, would be enough to pt any man off matrimony if he had not pierced the social mask.

am quite sure thot, not so femininely fashionable to look borcil,

and

sophisticated

take

smart,

many bachelors

០

Would

were

header Into matu always

providing, of course, that someone would have us! But

who could

face

or 50 years of married fe with a girl who is, outwardly, biase and bored

and

at 207 I know that I, personally, would gladly delight my mother's heart by settling down if only I could find a girl who did not look altogether too "precious" to do the washing-up.

Cooking Hints

To prevent fruit from bolling out

of a ple, place a straw or paper | funnel through a hole made in Its centre.

Rub a plece of celery on the hands after peeling onions, and it will en- tirely remove the odour.

When using an aluminium sauce- pan for boiling eggs, remember to add a few drops of vinegar to pre- vent the pan from discolouring.

Lemons that are not required for immediate use will keep fresh if stored in

in a bowl of cold water that is changed every other day. Warm the fruit slightly before using, and the Julee will dow more freely.

Before breaking eggs into a basin,

rinse

it in cold water to prevent them clinging to the sides. When beating eggs for meringue, ndil pinch of salt for it will considerably lighten your labour.

After trying dish, All the pan with i water and drop in a hot cinder. when i odour of cooking will be removed from the pan.

To ascertain if an egg la tresh r stale, hold it up to the light, when

will be

fresh if quite clear, but ilny black

It

marks otherwise.

If your mincer is rusty, put in a imp of lard and after turning the lump handle, leave the mincer in a warm place. Pour boiling water through the mincer afterwards, and all rust will be removed.

It is a good idea to melt suet in the oven and store in jars until re- quired. Not only will it keep for a long time, and save the labour of chopping, but it will be found easier to cut when treated in this way.

To prevent old potatoes from be coming discoloured when they are holled, odd a slice of lemon to the water.

Potatoes can be baked very quick- ly it first placed for a short time in salt bolling water, then dried, and placed in the oven.

When cooking greens, add a little vinegar to the water, for not only will it improve the colour, but it will also bring out the flavour.

Add a tablespoonful of fine out- meal to an ordinary milk pudding, and it will make it delightfully creamy, apart from improving the flavour.

G. G. T.

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