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WASP WAISTS
Lie flat on your back,! tucking your foes under some heavy piece of fur- niture if you're new to, this sort of thing, with your hands behind your head, clbows out. Slow- Ipas slowly as you can
raise and lower your self from the waist-ten times.
your
Still lying O buck, with your hands behind your head, raise and lower your lega- slowly. Keep your legs ankles and straight, knees together, and do it as slowly as you can. This one takes practice -do it only five times af first.
These exercises, so simple they almost speak for themselves, will gently but firmly give you the figure for this year's tight-fitted frocks.
Sit on floor, legs astride, hands on hips with the Bend first to the right, thumbs over your hip boner. then lean smoothly over to the left. Bend in right, left, right, left, twenty times.
A soft blue rayjon sheer has hand-smacked details through-
the bodies and a flaring skirt.
Lie on your tummy, arms stretched out
February 16, 1939.
Tasty Puddings
WHAT pudding shall we have to- clay? That is a problem which
la specially important in winter time whea appetites arc keen. Tho following recipes will be useful in the making.
Nice Castles
Wash 4 azs rice, then cook it with 1 pint milk in a double boiler till it has absorbed all the milk. Add uz butter, nugar to taste then bentes c. Press the mixture into well-peased small tins or bowls dererated with 2 cherries at foot of mould,
Bake in a moderate oven is miu- utes, or steam 40 minutes. Tum on to a hot dish, and serve will the following muce:
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Flake up 2 ozs chocolate, and put ༡ ozs granu- into a saucepan with Jated sugar and a tablespoon water.
tl the ingredients have melted, and the inixture is smooth.
Then meld
pint milk and beaten egg. Stir til the mixture is lek like custard; but do not allow to boll. Directly it coals the back of the spoon-It is ready to serve.
Fig and Lemon Pudding
Mix together 3 oz flour, 2 ozs breadcrumbs, 2 ozs chopped suct, pinch salt. 2 uza sugar, and 1 small teaspoon baking powder. Then add 4 oze dried gs (chopped), the grated rind and juice of 1-lemon. Mix well. Bind together with beaten egg and 1 gill milk. When of dropping consistency, pour into grensed mould, and steam steadily 2 hours. Serve with:-
Golden Sauce
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Put 3 tablespoons syrup in pan, add 6 tablespoons cold water, and the grated rind and juice of 1 lemon. Shriner gently 2-3 minutes, then pour into sauce boat.
Preserved Ginger Pudding
Ball 3 gills milk, and pour over lb breadcrumbs. In another ba- sin, beat 3 ozs butter to a cream, stir in 2 ozs sugar, and 1 oz flour. Add to that 4 ozs preserved ginger, cut 2 weli all. Bind together with beaten eggs.
Add this to the crumbs and milk, into and mix thoroughly. Four greased nain, and steam steadily out and serve 152 houra Turn with a sweet white sauce, favoured with ginger.
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TIMELY TIPS. METAL clothes fine cannot rust or mark clothes if it is given a
coat of thin enamel.
Enamelled flapjacks and cigarette
in front of you, legs behind you. Breathic deeply, then raise your arms and legs from the floor. They won't go very high but enses sometimes become scratched don't worry-do it as smoothly as you can when carried about in a handbag. -don't jerk-and don't do it more than ten Muke a cover by cutting two small times to start with.
CHEESE CAKES
Pastry
14 grupefruit
2 eggs
40%. butter
b. loaf sugar
circles or squares (according to the size and shape of the case) from the gauntlet part of old chamois gloves. Bultonstitch the side to-
Fashion Notes ether, leaving sufficient opening for
the case, securing the opening with will ja press stud. This simple cover CHARMING new accessories and protect the enamel from contact with
trifles give a
smart finishing keys and coins. touch to feminine chle. Small posics When washing eretonne or similar GRATE grapefruit rind and are made from anything from felt to material the colours of which may feathers. One lovely lapel ornn- fade in soap and water, try using - put in saucepan with the ment is made from a realistic bunch water in which a large bag of brun held in three long has been boiled. Give a final rinse juice of the grapefruit, sugar of red berries
Other charm-in fresh bran water and sait. leaves of binek felt, and butter; melt and cool. Beat
When next bolling handkerchiefs, Ing button-holes are made from de- eggs and add. Stir over heat unticately curled-feathers in brilliant add a small muslin bag containing
it thickens; do not allow it to boil.
Line patty tins with pastry and place mixture inalde. Bake for 20 mins. In a moderate oven.
Precocious Children
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THE precocious child is often the the child is more or less a wonder-
result of over-praise und indul- fut living toy. Second, the
If once where the family has been restricted In the early years. this foel is grasped it makes it easier to one, in order thui that one "may for those who have to deal with him have every advantage," and third, later to do so in an understanding the small person who has arrived on and sympathetic manner, otherwise the scene many years junior to his they are apt to arouse either foulings brothers and sisters, and so is made in a grown-up ut strong resentment, or weak sell- much of and lives
uity.
atmosphere.
The child with mental ability above the average is apt to be ex- Potential Grinses
It must never be overlooked that ploited by ndoring parents who thus anronsciously satisfy their own in the child who shows marked chental
an early unte of pride at the expense of his ability at
may be a Istinct
general and psychological develop potential genius, therefore his up- inent.
bringing needs all the more care if The young brain is constantly be- he is to make the most of his talents. The safest plan for preserving the ing made to exhibit its quickness in memory tests, Its readiness to copy balance
of mental and physical
and emulate the sayings and doings health with, the unusual child is to of the adult world around, and so, make him lead as normai fe us very naturally, the child soon thinks possible. Never allow him to think himself a very flue fellow and much he is different from his fellows. Do not force his brain-rather keep it superior to his companions,
back from actual mental exercises, The Result of Over-Development
but give the chlid plenty of manusi
Da parents
ever stop
to think occupation, preferably out of doors. where all this is leading? When He will be absorbing knowledge there is over-development of any all the time, but in such a way that one part, either mentally or physic- the mental, spiritual, and bodily de- ally there will be found a corres- velopment will each got its due.
some- As he grows older and some de- ponding under-development where else.
finite talent shows itself he must be The brain that is overtaxed in taught that this cleverness or apti- babyhood taken a toll from the tude is something progressive; that nervous system or the psychological no matter how he may seem to stand make-up, the character-building of head anl shoulders above his com- the child,
Thus he grows up lop panions there is still much to be shed, as it were, with certain facul- achieved. Lles abnormal and others immature. When such R line is taken there Why do we so seldom hear of the is little fear of the child being Infant prodigy in after-life? Simply spoiled, and his future powers Im- because his extreme precocity had paired by undue precocity, which is aver-stralued the brain to such an apparent In many modern children. extent that it had no power of fur ther development.
Precocity is really an over- developed assertive instinct and be chuse this instinct is one which is ku valuable when it is in its proper i pince in the child's character, it is unfortunate that by mishandling it
is given over-prominence.
It seems that mothers' uta, mostly
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plumes oerls root to the water and a last- mounted on a jewelled clip make a ing fragrance of violets will be im- majestic and successful headdress parted to the ilnen. with almost every evening frock.
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Here are shoes that will be worn Third from the lớp, still to the this spring; They are variations right of the sketch, is another of the hight front line. Observe wishbone strap model, in palent how the summer effect is achieve with crushed elasticized kidalcin through open backs, open sides, centre sirap. culout vanips.
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At the lower right, another high
at the top to a asymmetrie style front, is done in perforated elas- in blue kid toith binding and side: ticized suede in cranberry, with a lacing of white kid. Combination awtooth edging to the front panel the high and low cut. Imes is and similar stitching on the back
strap.ht scisted here in interesting treat-
Off the Duo shore at the left of with an 'elastic book. DooTo the right below the T the group, the upper is in japonica strap in block palen: har teardrop mass, sith trimming of japonica openings through the forepart and Palfie Beloit it is the one true Ban? oldala Upened shank. The strap del type in this broup, ↑ Zone in no molding, patent with pinhole, perforations
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