1939-05-25 — Page 10

TIFFIN, MY BOY, TIFFIN

"Lovely smell of cooking in the club this morning. Scrambled eggs, cut- lets, and that excellent curry the secretary Introduced from Penang Makes feller's mouth water. I've half a mind to go through the lot." "Can't you tuik of, anything except food I doubt if I shall ever eat again.”. "Fairly dripping with sweeties and' light this morning, aren't you? Advanced cane of hangover, I'll bet * couple of chips. Some of you young fellets haven't enough sense to come in out of the ralts,"

crite.

That's right, Mɔralize, you hypo

I muppose you never woke up with a head or a tungar like a strip of ancient gunny bag,“

"On the contrary, I have In the past cultivated some of the Encat hang- overs of all time. But that was back in the bad old days before I'd heard of Rose's Lime Juice."

"What on earth has Rose's got to do with hangovert Þ"

"Everything, my dear Watson. It wipes them out. If you stick 10 Gimlets or have a good åtiff swig before going to bed, you'll have no regrets in the morning,"

“Rose's Lime Juice you said ?"

"Yes, Rose'e,"

"Lend me a pencil, and I'll write it down,"

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TRICKS

On a email sailor hat the vell") la looped round the back of the head under the brim, like I Jair net; it goes up through stols in the brim and ties in a big bunchy bow high” and I straight on the head. The hat worn straight and dipping

over the eyes.

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This is if you like your face veiled. The veil loops under the chin, is draten over the face and frotha out at the back + above the brim, · The hatband must be fasteaed on after the uell to get the drawn-in efect; can be fastened with lidoks

and eyes.

Another way-though you have to be young and gay to act away with it to loop the vell under the' chin, over the fi sides of the brim, tying in a‡ crisp bow on top of the crown. I Tilt the hat and be quite sure+ that you don't look as if you have toothache.

Toning Up Your Wardrobe

PRUSH garments well to remove

dust, then sponge all over with a weak solution of ammonia, using it possible, a plere of the same or a pilar material: The solution will. help to remove stains.

Grease spots, and the obstinate greasiness at the need of coals will generally yield to benzine. Small, shiny spots should be lightly rubbed", with emery paper, but the more extensive shine which is a feature of well-worn coşlumes and men's sults needs different treatment, Rub the shiny surface with, athot and fairly strong, solution of ammonia, then place a clean wet cloth over 1. and press with a hot iron. While -still warm and molst, brush with a

stiff clothes brusli.

I splushes of mud have been allowed to remain on a garment, the atains can generally be removed by rubbing with a solution of carbonate of soda. Tar stains can be banished by un oppilestion of eucalyptus, and spots of point should be soaked in mixture of equal parts of turpentine and ammontu, after which they will rub off easily.

By the way, dark clothes always have a habit of collecting fluff, which is often difficult to remove with a clothes brush. A red rubber sponze, kept specially for the purpose, re- moves this fluff and surface dust very easily, and keeps clothes fresh and clean looking.

Shoes which are looking a little tired after the long winter months con be wonderfully improved by a little home treatment. Black shoes can be restored by being well rubbed all over with the inside of a place of fresh orange peel, then rubbed with damp cloth and, when dry, ++++++ | polished in the usuni way. Brown shoes which have become patchy will look like new if they are rubbed over with castor oil,

Here the call is looped under the chin again, but this time it Goes up through the brim at the back, knots above the brim, and falls to the shoulders. This, too, is a style for the young. The hat its "alightly over one eye.

This is a little more compl- cated and dressy. The vet to arranged it would have to be srun-tightly over the brim.

goes under the band and breaks _into_a_froth_ou the flat crown. The colour of the straw should just show through the selling.

The veil goes round the crown In front, making a peak, and is fucked through the .brim. I Under the brim at the back it i knotted and sticks out I crisply to the shoulders. The hat is worn straight over the oca.

Indoor Gardening

INVEN though you may live in a flat and have no, garden there is no reason to-day why you should be entirely deprived of the joy of grow ing flowers and plants.

seen in London combines an aquarium with a rock garden,

The aquarium is in front of the box, which is made of metal, and the rock garden is behind. The bottom of the aquarium is covered with an Indoor window boxes are becoming inch or two of sliver sand, in which increasingly fashionable, and de- the usual aquarium water plants pre lightful little gardens can be made in planted. The front is, of course, them, so that you have a fascinating glass, and the back is the rocky wall hobby and a new room decoration. of the garden, on top of which are

sown dainty little nowers. Trailing plants, and flowers that grow very tall, are better avoided as Glass Shelves they are not, for obvious reasons,

front of windows.

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Should you prefer it, instead of the conventional window-box you can have a set of wooden or glass shelves Begonias, petunias, late-flowering for holding little pot planis........ tulips, and calceolarias will give you

can be bought made up Thear n bank of glorious colour in a sunny specially for the purpose in a gloss window, ar brighten up a sunless one... case with a sliding front. A display Colour Harmony

of cacti plants, or, a collection of Japanese dwarf trees in small howls look extremely effective In these window cases.

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Study the colour scheme of your Indoor garden, and rolate It to that of the room so that the two harmonise. If you do this the result If you make your window-box

Light coloured kid gloves can be cleaned by belag rubbed gently with | a plece of cotton wool dipped in cau-de-Cologne.

Erica Trent

Repairs And Renovations

APESTRY chairs should be beaten

und plenty of dry bloarbonate of soda rubbed into the material. Leave on for a few hours, brush out with a stiff brush, and run over with the vacuum cleaner.

Table oileleth on tables or shelves may be torn or cut. Remove, turn on ine wrong side, and with a length of adhesive tape secure the loose edges neatly together. Press the -patch till hardens, and return the

oilcloth to its position.

Repair worn linoleum by plachig a plece slightly larger than the hole over the break and cutting round both with very sharp knife. If the linoleum is patterned, cut a plece suitable to all the top. Now remove the under piece and slip the new into its place, naliing neatly down,

Should the hole ben very finall

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ty, and paint it over when hard matching shade.

When electric bulbs are stained and duil cover with a paste made from cold water and carbonate of soda. Leave on for an hour, sponge off with soapy waer, then rinse and dry care-

fully

Lampshades of parchment may be sponged lightly with soapy lukewarm water, or if hand-painted, rubbed carefully with medium oatmeal. Slik shades should be washed in cool water and soap flakes,

Zine pails and baths are made gleaming and spotless when cleaned smooth with whiting mixed to a paste with cloudy ammonia, and applled with a woollen cloth. Rub off with flannel when dry.

A good step whitener which will Inst for some time is made by dissolv- ing some size and whiting in п little hot water. Add a teaspoonful of washing blue, and use in the usual way.

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Knitting Without

Tears

Is it not a nuisance, when you are kaliting a sleeve of a jumper, and lose count of the decrease?

The next time you are making a Jumper try snapping a press stud through every decrease now be you then decreases can be seen Ko

along, at a glance.

Keep a crochet hook in your knit- ting bag for dealing with dropped stitches. Pop your hook through the dropped stitch, and pull up loop by loop. It is for quicker than plecking It up with a knitting needle.

When you are knitting verts for the chlidren, cast off at the should- ers. Then, when they outgrow them, the vests can be lengthened, and the armhole made larger by knitting a plece on to the shoulder geam

If you want to knit up wool that has been used before, the quickest way to straighten the wool la to wind it round a plece of cardboard-. the lid of a shoe-box-with the alden 'taken off will do.

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Cover the wool with a damp cloth, ‚and ́press well with a hot. Iron. It will..come perfectly straight, and be ready for use again.

needs to be cast oft loosely, have your right hand needle three or four times larger than those used for the actuni knitting. This will ensure pearance of the work clostlelty without spoiling, -the top-

will be more pleasing than if you yourself do not forget that it must-If you are knitting anything that plant haphazardly.

Py, have drainage holes In the bottom. Bland Bla a zine tray made 16-AL It A charming way of perfuming your closely dil round, and paint both tray room is to sow sweet-smelling and box the same colour. flowers, such as stocks, sweet william mimonette, and pinks. These will provide a boxful of fragrance, that will be very welcome on a hot sum- mer's day,

An intriguing indoor window-box

Two or three hours after walering remove the tray and empty out any surplus water lying in it. If fett In the tray this will sour and cause root- rot among the plants,

„Odd pieces of wool can be, knitted Intoxun-bathing - sulla for small; children; the different colours give a gay: rainbow effect---

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