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Put Your Best Foot Forward
SUMMER puta the accent on our
feet. Sandals 'do not tactfully cover spreading fect and fallen orches, and however thickly you spread the noll, varnish your toe nails will not be beautiful if they are erdeked and I-kempt.
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Start now and get your feet Into "ummer trim." If you love such things as corns visit a chiropodist Cuard against shoes so tight as to cause disflgurement. Shoes con comfortable as well as smart,
be
Once you are assured that your feel are oil they should think about exercising them. It is a strange thing that though we now concentrate on physical exercises wo completely forget our feet in this respect.
This, perhaps, is prejudico. Wo think that the moto we exercise our fpbt the larger they will grow, Aqually this 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
ith ball of the foot then lowering- In other words tip-toeing-is excel- Tent.
An exercise for the strengthening of the arches is to place a marble or the floor (this must be one of the latger types of marbles). Then pick it up with your toes and it into the air. This means that you brace the muscles of your feet. The frat time you do this exercise you will and it really strange to be using your foot muscles,
: Another sound exercise which, by the way, also helps your: balance, is to stand upright, ilft one leg until it ta hip-level then bend the knee so that your toe is pointing to the ground, Turn the toe up, pause n moment, then stretch it down.
Use the same beauty treatment for your toe nails as you do for your finger malls. If you find the quicks are very stubborn, try soalding them In a little olive oil after your bath. You will have to do this several nights in succession, and it will only have effect if your feel have been Immersed in hot water beforehand. E. 8.
Lissom Grace
NIE well-dressed wornan knows THE
that a graceful carriage is essen- tial if her carefully-chosen clothes hre to look their best, By walking correctly, doing other forms of exer- else, and by paying attention to her
diel, she can ensure that her health is maintained and tier figure is well- proportioned. She can, In fact, acquire that grace and poise which are so essential to a snart appear-
once.
Without a smooth-alling founda- tion garment, however, the clothes themselves cannot took effective, und for this reason the modern woman should pay particular attention to the choice of garments she wears underneath her dress.
Now that the nitted waistlines are so prominent a feature of dress styles, a greater emphasis is fald upon the foundation garments, and the 1030 collections have been de-
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May 3, 1939.
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FRENCH people often complain that they cannot get a properly bolled cop in Englandthe white is hard and leathery outside, due, they say, to overboiling. A Frenchwoman bolls 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 boll again the saucepan to oth drawn from the fire and the egg left in the water for at least seven minutes or until required.
In this way the white sets, but doce hot harden and the polk remains liquid. If a little firmer set is required. leave the eggs to boil for the best part of a minute before removing the saucepan from the fire.
Bright Flowers
Make Bright Days
THE first blooms of the year are
hure to delight our eyes. With H
brilliantly hued flowers, we can again revet in flower-filled rooms,
Tea-Time Novelties
ERE are two new recipes well worth trying, and they are quite easy to make.
Cinnamon and Orange Loaf
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Chan customer complained 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.
I am not going
give you a medl cal dissertation on the food value of
milk, they supply all the food factors al' necessary to growth.
The colourings of the flowers are so glorious that you should take Slevel flour, 2 teaspoons bak-egga, for most of you know that, ko every Advantage of thun when ing powder, teaspoon salt, and arranging the blooms. If you use leaspoon ground cinnamon into them wisely they will brighten, as bowl. well as decorate, your house, and make you forget the dull skies out side.
The rich reds and purples and the. sunshine-yellow will light up dun corners, or relieve the dark brown
of an oak desk or bookcase.
2 oz caster sugar, grated rind of one Rub in 14 oz margarine, then add orange, and 2 ozs finely chopped orange peel.
beaten egg and about 1 gill milk, Mix well, and bind together with a The mixture should be of a stiff drop ping consistency.
If you like bold splashes of colour) and have a room with pale walls, bread tins or one larger one, well Put the mixture into two small put some scarlet Bowers into a wall vase, and hang them where you can for 30-45 minutes-Ume depending greased, Bake in moderate oven see them immediately you enter the on size of tin used. Cool on sleve. room.. Use a vase of tapering This four cuts into neat slices, and shape, preferably, and cut the stems keeps moist and fresh for at least a of the lowers fairly short.
week.
For a limed oak table or sideboard there is hardly anything lovelier than, a flower-ring filled with purple and mauve flowers or some violets. Do not use any foliage with the blooms, or you will spoil the effect that the strong contrast of purple and grey gives.
Coaxing Twigs to Bud
Caramel Cake
Not so much calclum na is in milk, been proved that when keng have perhaps, but more iron; and it has plenty of fresh grass their eggs con. tain more vitamin D. which is some- times called the Sunlight Vitamin.
Gotting Cheaper
greenest and eggs will soon be at their So now that the grass is at its
of egg dishes. cheapest and most plentiful, let's think
ace how we can spread it into a ment.
Let's allow one egg per person and
The Arst thing to remember is that an egg is a good mixer-meat, sh, vegetables or fruit, an egg isn't fussy who it's put next tol
For this you require 7 ozs brown sugar, 3 ozs butter, 0 ozs plain flour, inince it up with a few shreds of Tako a few ounces of cold mest. pinch salt, 14 gill milk, 2 eggs, 1 onion, a dash of pepper, and bulk it teaspoon baking powder.
out with a cereal or breadcrumbs. or cold, mashed potato.
Put 4 ozs of the sugar, 1 oz butter, and gill milk Into saucepan, Dis-
Bir in a well-benten egg with signed to enhance the smooth lines-You-can-coax-almost any twig to in cold water forms inte
solve the sugar, slowly, then boil to little milk, and you have a toothsome 250 degs Fuli. (or till a little tested pls ready for a quick bake in the oven. -of-the spring klihouelle: --
~~ The white of ́an" egg"beaten "into"à ball.) shoot forth buds and leaves earlier! Madame Kathleen Howell, a figure Indoors than outside. Put them into heated, stirring all the time. Put give a luxury look to the top of a milk Then add the rest of the milk,at froth will eke out the cream, or expert, speaking at a parade of Twill's newest models, In
montepid water for the first day, and side to cool. Cream the rest of the pudding. The solk will bind a staff Blair's, Edinburgh, recently, drew
prick with a needle any buds that butter and sugar, and add the beatening, a rissole or a potato cake together attention to the new designs adapted split up about two inches, but if they Add the sieved flour, salt, and baking they deal with eggs.
are showing. The stems should be eggs, beating, Ull light and muy belter than anything I know.
Let's go round the world and see how to suit every type of figure, from the young schoolgirl to the older womniu.
are very thick, it is better to smash powder alternately with the caramel French omelette
Here's a nice them with a hammer. This will en mixture. Bake in a six-inch tin in o Pelor to the mannequin porade, able them to absorb water more moderate oven for 60-00 minutes. Miss M. Morrison, B.Sc., dietitian, easily.
French Omolotto gave a short talk on health and diet.
When cold ice as follows:-Mash Do not put cut flowers of any kind a small banana to a pulp with a fork, into water that has been just drawn add a pinch of salt, lenspoon Allow one egg per person and beat from the tap. Stand a large jug of lemon Julee, and 7 oz sleved Icing them together with a pinch of salt water in the room with the flowers sugar, beating the sugar well in.
until the whites and yolks are evenly for a few hours before using it, to Spread smoothly all over cake and mixed. Have on the fire a nice heavy. allow the chill to warm off. Change just before serving, decorate with frying pan with a lump of butter melt- the water every other day, and on sliced banana and glace cherries,
ing quickly in it. the odd days spray the flowers light-
Isobel
with
Pink rhododendrons groen leaves burst into bloom against a background of black in this dinner sows of pure silk. It has a wide Inset of black at tha weist.
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 scissors, or you will close them so that they cannot take in water and air pro- perly. Cut them with a sharp knife. For the same reason, never cut flower stems straight across, so that they stand flat on the bottom of the vose. 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 sticking a piece of adhesive tape over them. Have a sirip long enough to pass over the corl and down the sides of the bottle.
To make a tin airtight, seal all round the edge of the lid with a piece of adhesive tape. It can be removed easily when the tin has to be opened, und the same place of tape can be used again and again.
After slicking together broken china or glass, the parts can be hold in place, with adhesive tape until the cement or gluo has set.
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Pour about a dessertspoonful of hot water on to your beaten egg and then, when the butter is smoking hot, pour in
the cag and let it run right over the pan. Keep shaking the pin about and pushing the egg away from the sides. Then, when it is just on the set, fold over the omelette in halves.
At the last minute before the fold Tou can plle in some shreds of bason; cooked mushrooms, a little cheese Bauce or anything you fancy to make the omelette more Bavoursome.
French people would serve a plied- up dish of potato chips and a green mind to complete the meal. Evoryman's Omelotto
Here's an everyday one,
That's rather a luxury omelette. It makes an excellent supper dish after a day out in the air. Ingredienta cggs, plenty of cooked potatoes, 3 mshers of bacon, jos of margarine, 3 tablesps, of milk, salt and pepper.
Beat the eggs lightly, add the milk and chopped parsley, Beason with pepper and salt. Cut the rind from the bacon and chop it roughly. Cut the potatoes in dize.
Melt the margarine in an omelette pan, put in the potatoes and the bacon and fry for a few minutes.
Pour in the eggs and cook unili set. Slip omeletto on to a dish and fold.
Monastery Egge
Boil four eggs for five minutes, re mave shells, and put into cold water for a minute to keep the yolka yellow.
• Place the eggs in a greased fire- proof dish, pour over pint white sauce. Sprinkle with a tablespoonful of chopped parsley and n little chopped onion, and serve hist.
These two recipes, I would like you to know, I tried out from a new recipe book called "Micals
that aro Different," by Susan Croft, to show the advantage of Stork margarine in family cookery. I can confidently recommend it to you.
With Banana
A friend from Georgia gave me a recipe the other day which has been ́ ́a'great ɛuccess both" with ehlidren and grown-ups. It can be cooked in separ- nte glass cooking dishes or in one large pottery one.
Allow a banana and one egg per head. Flest Frease the dish or 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,
11B Break an egg into each without dis turbing the yolk and build the banana mash up a little higher round the egg so that the white does not spread and look unudy.
Grate some cheese on top and pop into a hot oven for a few minutes, that le, 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 as good taste. By little in- be immediately conscious of that lack dividual touches she turns the house |of "feminine touch?” That Indon- into a home where everyone is glad
able something which spells home to to be, everyone is lacking.
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In the household routine, too, Housekeeping, however efficient, is 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 atmo ning of a home calls for brains and phere of a home. Industry, but the real home-maker The woman who is "on time" in a requires gifts of heart as well as of morning, punctual with meals and head.
personal appointments, is a boon to
What Is your idea of a real home- all ground 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
dust, A speck of.
squashed 'spells ruin for the harmony of the cushion, on untidy newspaper, what home. are these compared to the comfort Then the really good home-maker of the family? If a man cannot relax is clover In choosing her friends.
in his own home, he may just as well And she is very hospitable! Alwaya not have one. The real home-maker rendy to welcome everyone, even if has chough Imagination to realise the it is only to bread and cheese. stupidity of putting a love of order- 'No Fuss
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in unexpectedly, she does not fusS and mutter In an alarmed undertone Hobbies for the children are, en house
that there is positively nothing in the eat Sh raids the larder couraged by the real home-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 with flowers, and shop" does not call forth a protest. then with a real smile of welcome, Of courte notl For John's mother asks her. guest to share their meal, 'realises that outside intereats help to and how people like her for Itf. develop and refresh her boy's mind. They feel that her hospitality is
Joan's sewing machine, workman- genuine. At once they are at ease. mistress always wears a cheerful air, we need to be more than just good like scissors and paper patterns As for her husband, he would bn-She believes in fair play for her hus- cooks and housewives. We must decorating the diningroom table come quite lyrical If he could, but band and children and dependants, cultivate sympathy for the family's make her smile, but cheer her too. being a man he just gives her an Everybody Is loyal to her because needs, tolerance for their shortcom Untidiness, she malfitains, does not affectionate jook and calls her can she inspires confidence and because ings, and tenderness for their dia mean dirt. Often it ignifies comfort able.
she is never tyrannical.
tress,
Then what a happy place our There is no doubt that if we wish home will bel... to excel in the art of home-making.
and homeliness.
A home, managed by a real home- She makes the home bright and maker is such a happy place. Its
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