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Put Your Best Foot Forward
NUMMER puts the accent on our
feet. Sandals do not tactfully cover spreading feet and fallen archon, and however, thickly you spread the nail varnish your toe nails- will not be beautiful if they аге cracked and ill-kempt.
Start now and get your feet into "summer trim," If you have such things as corns visit a chiropodist. Guurd ngainst shoes so tight an to cause Ulsfigurement. Shoes can be comfortable na well us snart.
Once you are assured, that your feel are all they should be think about exercising them. It i strange thing that though we now concentrate on phyalent exercises we completely forget our feet in this respect.
This, perhaps, is prejudice. We think that the more we excreiso our feet the larger they will grow.
Actually this is incorrect. Most people walk badly, which causes their feet to spread. The correct, use of the feet rights this,
Any exercise involving rising on to the ball of the foot then lowering- In other words tip-toeing-ls excel- lent.
An exercise for the strengthening of the arches is to ploce à marble on the floor (this munt be one of the larger types of marbles.) Then plek IL up with your toes and lift it into the air. This means that you brace the muscles of your feet. The, Arst time you do this exercise you will And it really strunge to be using your foot muscles.
Another sound exercise which, by the way, also helps your balance, is to stand upright, lift one leg until it is hip-level then bend the knee 60 that your toe is pointing to the ground. Turn the tog up," pause a moment, then stretch it down.
Ure the same beauty treatment for your toe nails as you do for your Anger nalls.
If you find the quicks are very stubborn, try soaking them in a little olive oil after your bath. You will have to do this several
nights in slevession, and it will only have effect if your feet have been Immersed in hot water beforehand. E. S.
Lissom Grace
THE
THE well-dressed woman knows that a graceful carriage is essen- tial If her carefully-chasen clothes are to look their best. By walking correctly, doing other forms of exer- cise, and by paying attention to her diet, she can ensure that her health is maintained and her figure is well- proportioned, She cun, In fact, acquire that grace and polse which are to essential to a smart appear- ance.
Without a umooth-Atting founda- tion garment, however, the clothes theniscivet cannot look effective, and for this reason the modern woman should pay particular attention to the choice of garments she wears underneath her dress,
Now that the fitted waistlines are
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FRENCH! people often complain that they cannot get a properly bolled cop in England the white is hard and leathery outside, due, they say, to averbolling. A, 'Frenchwoman boils her egg this way.
First the water is brought to the boil in a saucepan, then the egg is slipped into the water, and immediately it is up to the boil again the saucepan is with- drawn from the Are and-thredo lejt in the water for at least seven minutes or untü required.
In this way the white scis, but does not harden and the yolk remains liquid. If a little firmer act is required, leave the eggs to boil for the best part of a minute before removing the saucepan from the fre
Flowers Make Bright Days
THE first blooms of the year are
Tea-Time Novelties
ERE are two new recipez well worth trying, and they are quite
here to delight our eyes. With H briliantly hued flowers, we again revel in flower-Allied rooms, easy to make,
can
Cinnamon and Orange Loaf
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about their smallness.. That was as may be; but to-day eggs are graded according to their weight, and every housewife knows that a small new-laid one is pre- ferable to a larger size of foreign extraction.
The colourings of the flowers are
I am not going to give you a medi- cal dissertation on the food value of so glorious that you should tuke Slevel flour, 2 teaspoons bak-eggs, for most of you know that, like every advantage of them when ing powder, 4 teaspoon salt, and a milk, they supply all the food factors arranging the blooms. If you use caspoon ground cinnamon into them wisely they will brighten, as bowl.
a necessary to growth.
Not so much calcium na is in milk, well as decorate, your house, and Rub in 1 oz margarine, then add perhaps, but more iron; and it has make you forget the dull sklep cut-2 oz caster sugar, grated rind of one been proved that when hens have side.
orange, and 2 025 finely chopped plenty of fresh grass their eggs con- tain more vitamin D, which is some- orange peol) beaten egg and about gill milk.
Mix well, and bind together with d. times called the Sunlight Vitamin. The mixture should be of a stiff drop- Getting Cheapor ping consistency.
The rich reds and purples and the sunshine-yellow will light up dim corners, or relieve the dark brown of an oak desk or bookense.
If you like bold splashes of colour and have a room with pale walls, put rome scarlet flowers into a wall vase, and hang them where you can Lee them immediately you enter the
Use
bread tins or one larger one, well Put the mixture into two small greased. Bake in a moderate oven for 30-45 minutes--time depending on size of in used. Cool on sieve, yuse of a tapering This loaf cuts into neat silces, and shape, preferably, and cut the stems keeps moist and fresh for at least a of the flowers fairly short.
For a limed oak table or sideboard. weck.
room,
there is hardly anything loveller than Caramel Cake
flower-ring filed with purple and
For this you require 7 ozs brown muuve flowers or some violets. Do sugar, 3 ozs butter, 8 ozs plain flour, not use any foliage with the blooms. pinch salt, 11⁄2 gill milk, 2 eggs, 1 or you will spoil the effect that the
teaspoon baking powder.
so prominent a fenture of dress-strong contrust of purple and grey styles, a greater, emphasis
Coaring Twigs to Bud
Jald gives. upon the foundation garments, and the 1939 collections have been de- signed to enhance: the smoothTM lines of the spring silliouette.
Madame Kathleen Howell, a figure expert, speaking at a mannequin parade of Twild's newest models, in Blor's, Edinburgh, récently, drew attention to the new designs adapted to suit every type of figure, from the young schoolgirl to the older woman. Prior to thominnequin parade, Miss M. Morrison, B.Sc., dietition, gave a short tulk on-health and diet.
Pink rhododendrons
green leaves burst into
with blocen
against a background of black to this dinner sown of vuro slik.
· It ́ħna a wide Inset of black at tho'walat.
Put 4 ozs of the sugar, 1 oz butter, and gill milk into saucepan. Dis solve the sugar slowly, then holt to 250 degs Fal(or till a little tested
greenest and eggs will soon be at their Bo. now that the grass is at its cheapest and most plentiful, let's think of egg dishes.
see how we can spread it into a meal. Loys allow one tag per person and
The first thing to remember is that an egg to a good mixer—ment, fish,“ vegetables or fruit, an egg isn't fussy who it's put next tol
Take a few ounces of cold meat, mince it up with a few shreds of onion, a dash of pepper, and bulk it out with a cereal or breadcrumbs or cold, mashed potato,
Str a well-beaten egg with a little milk, and you have a toothsome ple ready for a quick bake in the oven.
You can coax almost any twig to ht cold water forms into a ball.) The white of an egg beaten into a shoot forth buds and leaves earlier Then add the rest of the milic,stur froth will eke out the cream, or Indoors than outside. Put them into heated, stirring all the time. Put give a luxury look to the top of a milk tepld water for the first day, and aside to cool. Cream the rest of the pudding. The yolk will bind a stuff- prick with a needle any buds that butter and sugar, and add the beateng, a rissole or a potato cake together
better than anything I know. are showing. The stems should be eggs, beating till light and fluffy. split up about two inches, but if they Add the sieved flour, salt, and baking they deal with eggs.
Let's go round the world and see how Here's a nice are very thick, It is better to smash powder alternately with the caramel French omelette. Bem with a hummer. This will en- mixture, Bake in a six-inch thn In a able then to absorb water more moderate oven for 50-80 minutes. easily.
When cold lee as follows:-Mash Do not put cut flowers of any kind a small banana lo a pulp with a fork, into water that has been just drawn add a pinch of salt, teaspoon from the top. Stand a large jug of lemon juice, and 7 oz sleved icing water in the room with the flowers sugar, benting the sugar well in. for a few hours before using It, to Spread smoothly all over cake and allow the chill to warm off. Change just before serving decorate with the water every other day, and on sliced banana and glace cherries. the odd days spray the flowers light-
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ly with tepld water. If you have not a watering-can with a small rose, you will find a clean scent spray fill- ed with water will do the job equally well.
And here are two more "don'ts." Never cut flower stalks with Eelssors, or you will close them so that they cannot take in water and alt pro- perly. Cut them with a sharp knife,
For the same reason, never cuti flower stems straight across, so that; they stand flat on the bottom of the vase. Cut them obliquely, so that only part of the stems rest on the bottom and the water can be sucked up.
Dina Lawrence
Useful In The Home
A
ROLL of adhesive tape should be kept at hand in the home, as it has many uses.
The contents of bottles to be car- *ried when travelling can be made perfectly secure by stleiding piece of adhesive tape over them, Have a strip long enough to pass over the. cork and down the sides of the boltle.
To make a tin airtight, seal all round the edge of the lid with a plece of adhesive tape. It can be removed easily when the in has to be opened, and the same plece of tnpo can be used again and again.
Aftor allcking together broken ching, or glass, the parts can be held In place with adhesive tape until the cement or glue lias set.
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French Omolotto
Allow one cue per person and beat them together with a pinch of salt antil the whites and yolka are evenly mixed. Have on the fire a nice heavy trying pan with a lump of butter mell- ing quickly in it.
Pour about a dessertspoonful of hat water on to your beaten egg and then, when the butter is smoking hat, pour in
the egg and let it run right over the pan. Keep shaking tho pán about and pushing the egg away from the sides, *Then, when it is just on the set, faid. over the omelette in halves.
As the last minute before the fold you can plle in some shreds of bacon: cooked mushrooms, a little cheese sauce or anything you fancy to make the omeletto more flavoursome.
French people would serve a piled- up dish of potato chips and a green salad to complete the meal.
Everyman's Omolotte
Hero's an everyday one.
That's rather a luxury amelette. It makes an excellent supper dish after a day out in the air. Ingredients-3 eggs, plenty of cooked potatoes, 3 rashers of bacon, joz, of margarine, 3 tablesps, of milk, salt and pepper,
Beat the eggs lightly, add the milk and chopped parsley. Benson with pepper and salt, Cut the rind from the bacon and chop it roughly. Cut the potatoes in dice.
Melt the margarine in an omelette pen, put in the potatoes and the bacon and fry for a few minutes.
Pour in the eggs and cook until set. Slip omelette on to a dish and fold.
Monastery Eggs
Boil four eggs for five minutes, re- move shells, and put into cold water for a minute to keep the yolks yellow. Place the caps in a greased fire- proof dish, pour over į pint white sauce. Sprinkle with a tablespoonful of chopped parsley and a little chopped onlon, and serve hot.
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These two recipes. I would Uke you to know, I tried out from a new recipe book Diferent," by Susan Croft, to show the advantage of Stork margarine in family cookery. I can confidently recominend it to you.
With Banana
A friend from Georgia gave me a recijse-the-other-day-which-has-been-
n grent success bolh with children and grown-ups. It can be cooked in separ- nte glass cooking dishes or in one large poltery one.
or
Allow a banana and one egg per head. First
dish #reuse the dishes well with margarine, mash the bananas to a cream with a little milk and make a bed of it at the bottom of the dishes.
Break an egg into each without dis- turbing the yolk and build the banana mash up little higher round the egg so that the white does not spread and look untidy.
Grate some cheese on top and pop into a hot oven for a few minutes, that -is, until the eggs are nicely set but not hard; or you can do them under a good hot grill if preferred;
The Happy Home-Maker
ODD, isn't it, that you have only to cheerful, and as inviting as possible.
poke your nose Into the house Money, does not count with her so of any man who runs it himself to much is good taste. By little in- be Immediately conscious of that lack lividual touches she turns the house of "feminine touch?" That Indeẞn- into a home where everyone is glad able something which spells home to to be. everyone is lacking,
In the household routine, too,
Housekeeping, however emelent, la there is a pleasant absence of fuss. not the same thing as home-making What a difference collaboration with you will agree. Certainly, the run- the clock can make to the atmos ning of a home calls for brains and phere of a home.
The woman who is "on time" in a industry, but the real home-maker requires gifts of heart as well as of morning, punctual with meals and personal appointments, is a boon to What is your Iden of a real home- all around her. The housewife who maker? She is the woman who is is always behindhand and always houseproud, but who never allows trying to "catch up," automatically that pride to become an obsession. becomes fussy, and her agitation A speck of dhist, a squashed spells ruin for the harmony of the cushion, an untidy newspaper, what home.
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are these compared to the comfort Then the really good home-maker of the family? If a man cannot relax is clever in choosing her friends. In his own home, he may just na well And she is very hospitable! Always not have one. The real home-maiter ready to welcome everyone, even. K has enough imagination to realise the It is only to bread and cheese, alubidity of putting a love of order. No Fuss
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and mutter in an alarmed undertone that there is positively nothing in the Hobbies for the children are en- house to ent. She raids the larder couraged by the real, homo-maker. shelves and does the best she can. The sight of John's bedroom con- She sets the table attractively, does verted temporarily into a "work a few subtle, things will flowers, and shop" does not call forth''a protest. then with a real smile of welcome, Of course not! For John's mother asks her guest to share their meal. realises that outside interests help to And how people like her for t develop and refresh her bay's mind. They feel that her hospitality is
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