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PLATFORM SHOE: "Pave- ment-proof," the Americana call it. The half-inch - solen cushion your feet-keep them tireless and thereby improve your spring and carriage.

The

MUDGUARD SHOE: ornamental band of calf doer two jobs: it looks ornamental and it keeps wet-day splashes from the suede uppers.

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THREE DECKER HEEL: Like walking on a triple car. pet. Sometimes the three decks are extended to the soles as well.. Often they are tri- coloured. The thick cushionų layers take of the shock that heel-first walking gives to the spine.

CAMISOLE SHORE Light and feminine to wear with your afternoon clothes. The elastic inseta give a anug fit and pre- vent holes in your stockings.

ELASTIC SUEDE PUMP: Fits like your stocking and js almost as light. Once stretched on and you will forget you are wearing it. Still an expensive sort of shoe, though.

DUTCH-BOY HEEL: Clog- ged heel is hollowed out as in a sabot. Sometimes the sole turns up in front to match. Sensible for heavy weather and good for your carriage. Heel is high enough to be smart and broad enough to take your centre of gravity.

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THEN you decide to tackle the job indulge your fancy for pink, gold,

of making new curtains it would silver, or flower-patterned net.

decide on the length of all,

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be ridiculous to over-estimate dim- A slight shrinkage at culties as far as cutting and stitching washing is almost inevitable, and, for concerned. Still, if your new win that reuson, you should be generous -dow-dressing is to prove a complete with your allowances for length and success, there are quite a few points width. Allow fully five inches for that you should consider before even the lower hems, and; at least, two

inches for the top headings. buying the material.

Skimpy window hangings have First of curtain you need. This depende little charm, so allow a width of cus- on the particular type of window, lain one and three quarters that of If it is a casement, the hangings look the window itself, with four extra best when cut to fall about three in- Inches for the side hems. A pretty ches below the sill, unless the win finish for little net curtains is a head- dow is in an embrasure, and then, for ing outside that allowed for rod or convenience sake, the curtains must wire runner. just clear the sill.

French windows require hangings

Value of a Peimet

to reach the floor, and full-length "Is a pelmet necessary?" is a ques- curtains will best suit sash-windows, tion sometimes asked by novices in too, if the room is low. Small win- curtain-making. "Not necessary," in dows can be made to look larger by the reply, "but very desirable as a hanging the curtains a little above decorative Anish to the curtains and and beyond the sides of their wooden window." A pelmet should be stif frames.

fened with canvas and lined, and cut With with a shaped lower edge. patterned curtains it looks well cut In plain fabric. A gathered frill is

White or Cream

In the opinion of any expert win- a simpler finish and more suitable dow-dresser, curtains should be unl- with thinnish curtains.

form in colour, and preferably white, One very good reason for lining or perhaps cream, if you want your your long window-hangings is that house to look its biggest and the the linings can be all the

some windows their freshest. It is easy to colour, even if the curtains them- prove the soundness of this theory selves are different, and it is the lin- by walking down any street and Inga that look on the street, A viewing the house fronts critically in second very practical advantage of point of curiaina.

the lining is that it takes most of the

Supposing, however, that you have wear and catches most of the dirt a room, at the back which has an end is, therefore, very saving to the ugly, outlook, break this rule of curtains themselves. colour "uniformity in curtains, and

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COOKING

IGH spot of the festive tea-party is the hand- somely iced cake. Decor- ating this is one of the- most fascinating of your Christ- mas cookery jobs.

There are several points to re- member for successful icing.

Buy best quality icing sugar, and aleve it several times before using 'it, and then use it immediately.

When using icing for piping, keep the sides of the pasin five from sugar. And keep the top of the basin covered with muslin wrung out in very cold water, this prevents the telng hardening.

To thicken it, add more sleved sugar; if you need to thin it, ndd a little white of cgg.

Long beating is essential to obtalu a smooth icing.

If adding colouring, keep to pastel shades, they are so much more suitable for cakes.

If the cake is slightly raised in the centre, cut a thin slice off Brush the top and sides of the cake with white of egg, to make the almond paste adhere

Almond Paste.

Most people like to find a layer of this under the white icing.

Ingredients: 1lb. ground almonds, ib, sloved icing sugor, lb, caster. sugar, the yolks of two large eggs, a few drops of lemon juice, two teaspoonfuls of brandy.

Knead the ingredients well together, then roll out a round to fit the top of the cake.

Turn the cake upside down and cover the sides, keeping good. edge round the top of the cake Itself,

Next, put it on an icing stand, or on an inverted cake tin a size smaller than the cake. Cover with a plece of muslin and keep in a warm place for several days.

This makes the almond paste firm and prevents the oil from the almonds penetrating into the Royal icing.

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Many people complain that their Icing becomes discoloured; this because the Icing is put on too soon.

Royal Icing

Popular covering for the cake. Ingredients: Ab, sleved icing sugar, teaspoonful acetic acid, the whiles of four eggs, three teaspoonfuls of lemon juice.

Put the whites of the egge into a basin, add the icing sugar (sleved several times), gradually, and work well with a wooden spoon.

When the icing presents a very smooth and white appearance, add the lemon juice and acid and blend together thoroughly.

Place the cake on the icing table. Use a palette knife and sprend icing over the top and sides, Bmooth very

Grizzly bears,

fir trees and a blue lake on

snow landscaps.

December 15, 1938.

Snow Scene Cake

carefully with the knife across top and round sides until a fat, smooth intsh is obtained.

Dip the knife frequently in hot water while doing this. Allow the icing to harden for two daya

Decoration Ideas

To decorate, place the cake on a cakeboard and pipe a border round the base of the cake. A foreing bag is required for this. Repeat the border on top edge.

If you have not a forcing bag, you can make one with strong, pliable parchment paper. Cut a 9-inch square. then cut it across diagonally to make two triangles. Shapo a triangle into n cono like old-fashioned sweet bags.

Cut of a very small plece at the bottom of the paper cone, and carefully at in a tube.. -

A "lear" tube" is very effective for the edges of the top of the cake. These are obtainable at most confco tioners or pastrycooks. They cost from éd, to 18.

Put the icing into the bag or cone, not filing it quite full.

Turn the top over to that icing does not doze out at the top. The leaf can be forced an to the cake, or the leaves can be forced on parchment paper, left to dry. then arranged round the cake afterwards,

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by spreading icing and raising it in peaks with a knife.

Any figures or animals should be placed on before the teing has set,

A needlework transfer makes another

It unusual decoration. can be a spray of flowers, or the old-fashioned Jady with a large hat and a basket of country flowers.

Place the transfer on the cake, and prick the outline with a needle, re- move the paper and loe the outline with a writing tube.

Tho decorating of the sides of the cake is more difficult than the top, it you are not experienced with decora tions. A plece of pastel-shaded satin ribbon led round the cake with an artistic bow looks attractive.

Iced Fairy Cakes

These always appeal to the children. The icing must nat be sticky. Here is one most suitable for litle cakes in paper cases.

Ingredients: lb. best quality icing sugar, 1 white of egg, 2 drops of acctio acid to whiten the icing.

Bieve the icing sugar twice, make a well in the centre, and stir in the beaten egg white and the two drops of acello acld. Beat untli very smooth, place a littis on the top of each small cake, and spread with a knife dipped in hot water.

When nearly set, decorate with "hundreds and thousands,” glacó cherry. a little desiccated coconut. You could also use chocolate icing.

The top of the cake can bo deco- rated in many ways. On the cake photographed here, the lake was made by spreading on some rather thinner Icing --coloured bluo. with cooking---decorated with a blanched split.

almond and angelica.

colouring.

A snow efect is obtained

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