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TIFFIN, MY BOY,

"Lovely smell of cooking in the club thli moming, Scrambled eggi, cuti lets, and that excellent curry, the secretary introduced from Penang. Makes a feller's mouth water. I've halí a mlad to go thươugh the lot.**

"Can't you talk of mything except food.) I doubt if I shall ever sat again,"

"Fairly dripping with sweetness and Eight this morning, aren't you? Advanced care of hangover, I've a couple of chip. Some of you young feller haven't enough sense to comme In out of the ralı,"

That's right. Mwaliye, yan hypo- ceita. 3 muppose you never woke up with a head or a tongue like a strip of ancient gunny bag,“

TIFFIN

"On the contrary, I hare in the past Cultivated soins of the finest hig 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 Rowe's got to da with hangovara ?"

Everything, my dear. Watson. It wiper them out. If you stick to Gimlets or have a good stiff awhit before going to bed, you'll have qui regret in the morning."

*Rose's Lime Juice you said ?"

** Yce, Roso'

" Lenul me a pencil, and l'U write it down."

Swan Culbertson

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HAT TRICKS

On a small sailor hat the veil. is looped round the back of the head under the brim, like a hair net; it goes up through slots in the brims and ftes in a big bunchy bow high and 3 straight an the head. The hat ls worn straight and dipping| over the eyet.

This is if you like your face velled. The veil loops under the chin, is drawn over the face and froths out at the back above the brim. The hatband † must be fastened on after the veli to get the drawn-in effect; † it can be fastened with hooks and eyes.

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May 25 1939.

Toning Up Your Wardrobe

DRUSH garments well to remove

dunt, then sponge all over with a weak solution of aminonio, using it. possible, a piece of the same or a similar material, The solution tvill help to remove stains.

Grease spots, and the obstinate. greasiness at the neek of coats will generally yield to benzino, Small, shiny spols should be lightly rubbed. with emery paper, but the more; extensive shine which is a feature of well-worn costumes and men's suits needs different treatment. Rub the shiny surface with a hot and strong solution of ammonia, place

n clean wet cloth over 1. and press with a hot iron. While warm and molst, brush with a alift clothes brush.

If plushes of mud have been allowed to remain on a garment, the stains can generally be removed by rubbing with a solution of carbonate of soda. Tar stalns can be banished by an application of eucalyptus, and spots of paint should be soaked in a H+ | mixture of equal parts of turpentinb and ammonia, after which they will

Another way-though you have to be young and pay to get away with it-is to loop the vell under the chin, over the sides of the brim, fylig in-aj crisp bow on top of the crown. Tilt the hat and be quite sure that you don't look as if you) have toothache. ~|~||~||~|~|~||~|~|~||~+++++

Here the eull 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 hot tilta slightly

over one eye.

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This is a Butle more compli- I cated and dressy. The veil is arranged--it would have to be sex-lightly over the brimi, goes under the band and breaks into a froth on the flat crown. The colour of the straw should "just show" through the veiling.

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The veil goes round the crown in front, making a peak, and is takend

brim. through the Under the brim at the back it knosted and sticks out erisply to the shoulders. The hat is worn straight over the eyes.

Indoor Gardening

EVEN though you may live in a fint

seen in London combines an aquarium

and have no garden there is no with a rock garden. reason to-day why you should be | entirely deprived of the joy of grow

ing flowers and plants.

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 are lightful little gardens can be made la 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 flowers. Trailing plants, and flowers that grow very tall, are better avoided ag Glass Shelves they are not, for obvious reasons,

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front of windows.

Begonias, petunias, late-flowering tulips, and calceolarins will give you a bank of glorious colour in a sunny window, or brighten up'n sunless one. Colour Harmony

Study, the colour scheme of your Indoor garden and relais it to that of the room 50 -that di two harmonisc. If you do this the result will be more pleasing than it you plant haphazardly.

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·Should you prefer it, instead of the conventional window-box" YOU have a act of wooden or glass shelves for holding little pot plants.............

These can be bought made up specially for the purpose in a glass case with a sliding front. A display of cacti plants, or a collection of Japanese dwarf trees in small bowla look extremely effective in these window cases.

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you make your window-box yourself do not forget that it must "haya" drainage "hoter"in"me"bottom." Stand it in a zinc tray made to at it A charming way of perfuming your closely all round, and paint both tray room is to sow sweet-smelling, and box the same colour.. nowers, such'ns stocks, sweet william,” mignonette, and pinks, Thise will Two or three hours after watering provide a boxful of fragrance that remove the tray and empty out.any will be very welcome on a hot sum. surplus water lying in il. If left in mer's day.

the tray this will sour and causa rools” rot among the plants.

D. L.

An intriguing indoor window-box

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 speciully 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 can be wonderfully, improved by a Ittle home treatment. Black shoes can be restored by being well rubbed all over with the inside of a plece of fresh orange peel, then rubbed with damp cloth and, when dry. | polished in the usual way. Brown shoes which have becoine patchy will loo' like new if they are rubbed over with castor oil.

Light coloured kid gloves can be eleaned by being rubbed gently with piece of cotton wool dipped In cau-de-Cologne.

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Repairs And Renovations

MAPESTRY chairs should be beaten

and plenty of dry bicarbonate 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 alicloth on tables or shelves may be torn or cut. Remove, turn on the wrong side, and with a length. of adhesive tape secure the loose edges neatly together, Press the patch till it hardens, and return the oilcloth to its position.

Repair worn linoleum by placing a plece slightly larger than the hole over

the break and cutting round both with a very sitarp knife. If the Haoleum is patterned, cut a plece sultable to fill the gap. Now remove the under picee and slip the new Inte its place, nailing neatly down,

Should the hole be a very small

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Baby's health depends-now and

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In the future-on the food he receives during the first months.

To ensure that Baby is given rich and uncontaminated milk, a wise mother will drink Maltonic daily; It fortifies her body against sickness

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When electrle bulbs are stained and i dull cover with a paste made from cold

water and carbonate of soda. Leave on for an hour, sponge off with Koopy waer, then rinse and dry care- fully

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

Zinc palls and baths are made gieaming and spotless when cleaned with whiting mixed to a smooth paste with cloudy ammonia-and applied with a woollen cloth. - Rub off with flannel when dry.

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

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Knitting Without

Tears

TS it nolu nulsance, when you arej

knitting a sleeve of a jumper, and lose count of the decrease?

The next time you are making, a jumper try snapping a presa stud through every decrease now 18-you along. then decreases can be seen nt glance.

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Keep a crochet hook in your knit ting bag for dealing with dropped stitches. Fon your hook through the dropped slitch, and pull up loop by loop. It is for quicker than picking it up with a knitting needle.

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When you are knitting vests for the children, cast-off at the should- cre. Then, when they outgrow them, the vests can be lengthened, and the armhole made larger by plete on to the shouldering

If you want to knit up wool that: has been used before, the quickest] way to straighten the wool is to wind it round a piece of cardboard... the lid of a shoe-box-with the sides. taken off will do.

Cover the wool with a damp cloth, and press well with a hot fron. I will come perfectly straight, and be ready for use again.. M

If you are knitting anything that needs to be east of loosely have your right hand needle three or four mes larger than those used for the nctual knitting. This will ensure elasticity without spoiling the up- pearance of the work,

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Odd pieces of wool can be knitted un-bathing suits for small children; the different colours give a gay rainbow effect fit

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