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SAY IT
WITH
HEARTS!
EARS ago St. Valentine's Day was quite an important affair, when romantic young men took the opportunity of sending a token of their affection to their chosen lady your tove. Hearts are trumps to-day! The "let me be Valeritino" days are not over by any means, and they cause much fun and amusement among friends.
I know one young man who had thirteen Valentines inst year!
Many versions are given as to the origin of St. Valentine's Day; but, whoever started the idea, the fashion world is taking
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Valentine Gifts
on this page:
To stand an his desk, o heart- shaped matchstand i flaming
red,
A heart to hold “your munch, aceurely fastened with a zip and uteristic strap in blue, or fed or
green.
Or a sentimental photograph frame, with a private shutter which opens to show a "loved one's face, maybe the baby's!
Two pairs of heart-shaped pockets give Parisian style to a simple dreas in striped flannel.
Here we have the new full-skirted afternoon dress with its fitted Vodice and front row of heart- shaped buttons.
CASSOULET
This savoury and delicious dish! comes from Southern France, Το prepare it take 211 uf Jean U11- cooked Thrib, lib. of butter beans, a clove of garlic, a bouquet gumi, wait, pepper, a few slices of sausage and thred onions.
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Soak the beás overnight; next dog! place them in a saucepan with cold water and cook gently for 2 hours. Cut the inmb in nort pieces and brown them in butter, Add oulons sliced, garlle, seasoning and bouquet. Dredge a little flour over them and pour on very gradually n bare pint of slock or boiling water. There should not be much gravy. Cook until ten- der.
Place half the beans in a casserole, add the meat, the remainder of the beans. The sausage and gravy, Cover and finish cooking in il moderate oven for about 20 minutes. Serve very hot in casserole.
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Going down to the sea, offl be easy for any Miss in this bathing suit of black and white celasare rayon moire,
Beauty
takes the Road
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WERE it is at Inst; the begin- ning of Spring. and most of LA
us are planning our first day of the year out-of-doors.
My first job, when I'm getting ready for a day's like, is to be kind to my feet.
I find that comfort in this direc- tion can give one a hundred per cent,
more pleasure. Nothing elaborate; just a spray of cau-de- Cologne and a good dusting of boracle-acid
cld powder before pitt- LINK
on my stockings. I'm careful what shoes, too, on these occasions. Turn n cold shoulder on high-heeled pretties and go for less pretentious, but kinder, footwear. Remember that aching heel bring and mouths and wrinkled brows.
Personally, I go easy on make-up for the open-air-too much has a way of looking garish. But I think that your powder foundation is important, nA it is your insurance against a shiny skin. You may use a vanishing cream or a liquid-the latter generally has n more lasting effect, but ft là trouble to apply.
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Whichever 1 la, bay special atten-
a hand by showing many heart- shaped noveilles.
Even on frocks the Cupid note is to be remarked, but no lady wears her heart on her alcoves.
You will notice in the models shown that pockets, collars and cuffs have a heart interest, and in
the right-hand model the bodice has been cleverly curved to follow the same lines.
A novel note can be given to the simplest frock by the addition of heart-shaped buttons. These are easily made in suede cloth or velvet. A belt embroidered with minute hearts in different shades gives a colourful note to n durk everyday dress.
The wearing of heart-shaped accessories is not restricted to St. Valentine's Day, as in Paris shops are to be seen black antelope bags decorated with a Cupid's arrow.
Oloves have the same emblem embroidered or enamelled on the back or on the gauntlet.
On inces, too, true lovers' knots are a favourite border as well as corner decoration.
Many novelties not only take on a practical form, but are delight- ful sentimental remembrances of happy days.
Wives like something practical for the house and the pretty matchstand will find a niche in the lounge or dining-room.
The heart-shaped pocket work-case will also find a home in mother's work basket, and will recall happy thoughts of a pleasant surprise each time it is used,
Valentina
MAN by
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Mary Grace
tion to your forehead (lols of people farget they have any face above their eyes!), the parts round the nostrils and your clin. These are the spots which shine first, so defeat them.
Lipstick lasts well if you follow that old, but effective, trick of applying it, then powdering the lips, then applying more of the lipstick. This way the rouge seta and Insts for hours.
Fresh as a Daisy
Office workers who are not accus tomed to a lot of exercise often find that a day of biking or hiking leaves them too ata to move next morning. You can avold this kind of hangover If you have a hot bath and a good rub down at night. A handful of bath salts adds to the pleasure at the end of a perfect day.
Last, but not least, remember that however beautifully you apply your make-up your skin will pick up a tot of dust. Don't keep powdering over Instead pop a tiny boltle of cleaning lation and a bit of colton wool in your handbag.
Have got clean up during the day and when you get home your face wilt still feel freals as a daisy and you! look as pretty as when you suurled out In the morning.
Are Women Too Inquisitive?
MANY modern women scem to, formation for
use, say,
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DOCTOR'S ORDERS
READER wrote the other day saying that she was going
to have a baby, and that her doctor had advised her to have tinned salmon twice a week, as the calcium from the crushed bones would be good for her and for her child.
She wanted recipes to vary the menu. Here are the ones I gave tier-
In a Pic
All the family will enjoy it. Ingredients: 1 amali túi Middle-Gui salmon, 3 tomatoes, 1oz margarine, pint milk, 1 small onion, 3 table- spoonfuls white breadcrumbs, season- ing. parsley, nutmeg.
Brush
fireproof dish well with
nelled margarine and sprinkle all over with breadcrumbs, slice the toma- toes and Iny evenly over the bottom
of the dish,
Flake the salmon into medium-cized pieces, lay a layer of salmon on the tomatoes and add a layer of finely- chopped onton and parsley.
Make a white sauce, adding to it the salmon liquid and a little nutmeg.
Pour over salmon, cover with bread- crumbs and bake in a moderate oven for ten minutes. Remove from oven, dot with small pieces of margarine and grill golden brown.
Baked Salmon Potatoes
Nourishing and savoury dish. Ingredients: 1 un Middle-Cut salitou, Inge potatoes, 3 oz. grated cheese, 11 oz margarine, salt and pepper, and attle hot milk.
Bake Drain and flake the salmon. the potatoes. Halve them lengthways and scoop out the potato.
Maslı Út well with margarine and a Hule hot milk. Add a good spoonful of flaked almen to each potato case. Beason the mashed potato well with salt and pepper and add grated cheese. F each potato case and brown in a hot oven for 10 minutes, With Cheese Sauce
Bavoury Burnish for the fish. Take a large to of Middle-Cut salmon, heat the salmon and place it on a dish.
Make a good white sauce and after it has boiled add loz, of grated cheese. Pour the sauce over the salmon. Slice three hard-boiled eggs over the top and garnish with parsley.
Mincemeat Fairy
Cakes
HESE are pleasing dainties which
are rate for encores at any party. Cream four ounces of castor auga: and four ounces of butter together. Add two well-beaten eggs and beal thoroughly into the butter and suga mixture. Then mix in eight ounces three table- of self-raising flour. spoonfuls of mincement, and two tablespoonfuls of milk.
Put into greased small tins and bake for about ten to Afteen minutes in a moderate oven.
D. F.
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for too
have this mania far asking examination; yet it puzzles me why questions. Indeed the woman of to women should be so anxious to mas- day is becoming co inquisitive that ter information that no one in the therefore, he ignores such questions her husband and family can have least requires:the exact colour of when his wife puts them to him in
curtains; the number the evening. very little peace in the evnings when her neighbours' they return from work.
of dresses
possesses, the
faults I admit that there are to Curiosity, of course, is a good thing various relations who come stay in moderation; yet in excess it comes with the woman across the street; both sides. Husbands are very
near to
impertinence. In In- the friends Misa Y, has to tea; and reticent about their work, and seem posiman to forget that it may be of great fants
and school-children it is en- the number of times couraged, and rightly so; here it is calls next door. These are only interest to other people. Wives, on knowledge that is being sought. few of the many facts which the the other hand, are far too inquisi- Women, however, are curious about average woman has at her finger tive, and ply their husbands with questions even though they may be one thing and one thing only ends. namely, other people and other And then there are the questions aware that the latter are a inte which women ask their husbands tired--seems to me that some kind Quite a big subject to be interested and families. These mainly concern of compromise should be made in in, you say? You are right; per- the persons inet during the day, and this connection. sonally, I do not know how so many any strange Incidents which may I still maintain, however, that the women manage to master and retain have occurred in the course of the majority of women are for toon such an accumulation of facts. day's work.
quisitive. Curiosity, they say, killed Strangely enough, the majority of Reluctant to Talk Shop" these facts aro of little importance
The average British husband, how not be the means of destroying was to anyone. Funda of Information
ever, has a strange habit of refusing men, let alone their busbands and
tamilies! to "falk shop” when his work is over
A Modern Men
people's affairs.
I can see the sense of storing-in for the day! TK-not unnaturally,
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February
14, 1939,
BATHS FOR BEAUTY
ATHS are the most important of
all beauty trentments-not just ordinary bathis with soap and hot water-but thuse with something special in them to get just the right results.
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to n
For
instance...have you ever tried ja hot sea salt bath? Sea water is very Invigorating, and you can enjoy it in your own home. On days when you have been extra busy tone your- self up with a salt-water splash.
Sea salts can be obtained from your chemist, and a couple of hand-
added
hot bath make it very pleasant indeed. Or, you can prepare.d slaulur bath by using the ane quantity of course kitchen salt. Wash down with soap and water in the usual way to cleanse the skin, and then slip into the prepared bath for few minutes. Salt baths are very atimulating to the skin, and are just the thing to give you a feeling of exhilaration after hard day's
work or play.
For An Olly Skin
'If you suffer from an oily skin try a bran bath, Put a cupful of bren into a muslin bag, and pour two tablespoonfuls of tollet eau-de- Cologne over it. Tie up loosely, and use the bug as a sponge in your bath. It a good skin tonic.
An oatmeal bath will solten ant whiten the skin. Do not put the ontmeat in the bath loose, but the it up in a muslin bag and squeeze it
in the water several times. out in
If you suffer from insomnia, a herb bath taken hot, will usually induce a good night's rest.
of
herbs con be
A selection bought
al" any chemist's. Take a handful each of such herbs as mint, thyme, sage, rosemary and lavender. Put them in a muslin bag and drop into a jug of boiling water; addi a tablespoonful of bicarbonate of soda, Leave the herbs in
in the boiling water for about ten minutes to extract the
and then essences, bath. Such a bath is both pour the liquor
into your fragrant
and refreshing.
Avold very hot baths, except when taken before retiring at night, as they make ene teel sleepy. A useful and gulde is to see if you can im- merse your elbow comfortably in the water.
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A Morning Tonic
A regular lepid morning bath is bracing and beneficial. It should al- ways be followed by five minutes exercise to restore circulation, and then you will feel really it for the day's work.
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cone or
If you wont to slim, try a weekly foam bath. Half all the bath with hot water and add a couple of table- spoonfuls of Epsom salts, sold for bath purposes. Then add half n pound of soap flakes and beat the water thoroughly with
benter until it is a mess of corpet (ourn. Add hot water until your elbow can just bear the heat, and then sink into the foam. Lie
in the bath for about Afteen minutes, and cool down the water by turning on the cold tap before you get out.
Foom baths are slippery, and it is a..wise precaution to have a folded towel at the bottom of the bath to give you a foothold,
L. H.
A house frock that is "styler" in developed in printed percale in wine and green tones. Note the shirred waistline and the front buttoned bodice, while the skirt wraps and ties in con- ventional manner. The collar is while dotted swiss.
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mentals of good taste that smartness our opinions so valueless? You pro- In a woman does not hit one in the less to an honest desire to please us eye, so to speak;
surely
you can when you dine with us; but aren't obtain your effects with dellency you pleasing yourselves rather than shall we suy-obvious terms of dress? ness?
first-in
is all very well to say defensive-
man has a natural pride in I hope you will believe me when ly that I say that men loathe nothing more being with a girl who is outstanding- than to be made conspicuous them- Ly dressed at a restaurant or selves by being with a girl who has theatre; but does this mean that rou Inet herself out to be looked at. Or should go to I say 141 aband that object? We course, when we meet you, say, for lengths to lunch, we tell you that you have men are self-conscious. An evening Dy A MERE MAN
never looked belter; we
us if we feel that this maintain, although our tongue is in our check. salteconsciousèss is encouraged -- by much we may be mys-that that rather striking new hat is the fear that we are partly the focus. HOWEVER much by the vagaries simply wonderful; yet we writhe an of critical inspections. of feminine fashiona; however much we note out of the corner of our eyes.
This is not a tirade against woman-
taste. If you
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the cat. I sincerely hope that it with we may like being with a woman what we: Imagine to be covert miles Wally know how much mon
who is original, colourful, and smart, from outer tables. Iwe bɔle you to be conspicuous,
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