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Make your clothes work for you

Every woman wants to know how to look her best--not only how to make the most of her good points, but, even

·more · important, how to tarn her defects into assets. This serial-which 30,000 women bought in book form in America will show her how to do

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just that.,

IF YOU ARE TALL

ON'T stoop to conquer. It will only spoil your figure. But dress to con- quer your self-consciousness about your height. Here are nine ways to do it.

Cut the height with line or colour. This, means wear suite of every sort except bolero suits. Boleros will make you look as though you are growing out of your clothes. Wear tunics and jigger coats and three-quarter length capes. Wear odd jackets of a different colour from your skirt.

Wear your skirt quite short. This cuts down the long-legged, short-waisted effect of this figure. Do not be self-conscious about showing quite a bit of ankle. Darker stockings will take away that leggy look. And don't worry about calling atten tion to your feel. We'll get to them in a moment.

Wear a plain bodice and a cut-up skirt. The only detall permissible on your bodice is a row of buttons or rulle ending at the low waist-line. Below the waist, however, you should eut up the length with a hip-length jacket or a tonic or a peplum or pockets or panniers.

Stress the hodizontal. HHHHH Avold vertien! stripes. tong or swag- zer lines, especially buttons, borders. any detail parading all the way down from neck to hem.

Stick to low, wide hats. this

: Obviously small caps make

figure look pin-headed. Do not con- dine yourself to picture hats, but if

"Make up your mind whether you would like to look shorter or taller: then took at these sketches--and learn"

padded shoulders.

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long sluit

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low head dress

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June 13, 1939:

I Married At

Forty

I HAVE just completed the first year of a marriage which began when I was forty. I have never for one moment regretted it.

Moreover, this marriage of mina was not the desperately grasped last straw held out to the struggling plain Jane in the waters of approach- ing spinsterhood. I have had plenty of chances, and I have chosen, quite deliberately, to walt this last..

Young girls are inclined to snigger at the comical spectacle, of bride in her middle age. Perhaps, though, the middle-ared' bride has the Inugh on them. This much do I know.. I have had had rather less delicious happiness, decidedly less misery, and I would not for the world have ex- changed my honeymoon and first year of married life for more gaudy edition singed in the twenties.

and

There are few things more intense than the idealism of a young girl in her outlook upon marriage; marriage, being what it is, can never hope to keep these ideals intact. Sooner or later. In most marriages they

must break, and with cash breaking there is stormy weather about the home. Of that breaking of ideals I have had nothing.

of

During twenty-two

years apinsterhood, when I was eligible for marriage, I have seen what caused unhappiness and the reverse. I have learned all that there is to be learned from my married contemporaries, and my values have become mellow- ed and are now readily receptive to facts.

I faced my marriage at forty in a perfectly cool, reasoning light. I have found in it affection, content, companionship, with none of the natural Intolerance of the very young.

Justifiable Independence

but

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Oh grandmamal

HE tight frilled bodice and the flared crinoline skirt have come straight out of the old family album, but the figure-

is her own. Great grandmama could never have achieved this elim athletic line without the high-pressure help of a sturdy lady's maid, but the achieves it by watching her diet and her drinks. Her cocktail for example is always a Gimlet because she knows that the girl who insists on Rose's Lime Juice today avoids a beadache and á Rubens contour tomorrow.

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Out of my life I am making twice what is made by the normal woman who marries in her teens or early twenties. By the time she is sixty she familiar thing-marriage. By will have known only time I am sixty 1. not only twenty years of marriage. shnil lave konosin Wear low-heeled, namped, square-toed shoes,

also twenty years, easily re- heeled shoes are a boon, especially 'Carry the biggest bag you can find enjoyed the thrill of being mistress targe accessories, called, of perfect freedom when I for dancing when a long frock hides Cover your long wrists with great in the career I had chosen for myself. of my own destinies and well placed ||~||~Z~[m] the feet. The trouble is, low-heeled

shoes worn with street clothes are barbaric handcuffs, glittering "col- at to make ankles look larger and lections of bracelets by night. With feet longer.

The bigger your accessories, the The first difficulty can be over more they dwarf your height.

Wear sumptuous jurs. Your long neck needs big collars of long-haired fur. Your shoulders need broadening with double-skin scarfs or red or silver fox. You are the one type who can carry them off without seeming vulgar.

Witli hn ordinary mattor you enn 700 wear a turban it should not be save yourself an inch.

close turban.

turned-down brim you can cut off

Fashion Notes

PARISIAN shoemakers in recent

years have collaborated much more closely with the dressmakers, 30 that now shoes to match each

costume are a feature of nearly every dress collection.

Baits, also, coincide with shoes, and the result is really very agreeable. for the new shoe fashions are closely allied to those for bags.

Indeed, to-day it is almost essential to choose both together. Crocodile skin

popular for walkingshoes and because the skin itselt has decidedly

decorative-value, the court shoes and and simple shapes are cut on classical lines, while bags to go with them are usually rectangular, nearly square,

and fitted with looped handles to slip over the arin.

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Rather more formal are a series of suede and antelope shoes, trinamed with coloured crocodile skin or with finer lizard-skins which making a determined bld to gain new popularity. Antelope shoes trimmed with kid are also fashionable, and dark violet shoes may have straps of cyclamen pink kid down the sides of

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to this range of shoes; Indeed, there are shoes in all the up-to-the-minute colours, although the most usual are wine-red, dark green, a new shade of navy blue, and a mahogany: brown.

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IF YOU ARE SHORT.

The Problem Of The Bad Child

YOU can. by taking thought, add cublis to your apparent stature. Here's how.

Use loug, unbroken princess Hues. That means

wear dresses rather than 'suits whenever possible. It means no wide belts or tunics or peplums or short coats figure horizontally.

to cut the

--Raise the waist=line to gi leg length, if you wear a beli, wear It above the natural waistline. This waist will be slightly larger than the natural one because it will be located just at the floating rib. But the leg. length you gain will more than chin- pensate,

Wear your skirts longish for still more leg length. This will not look dowdy it you wear high heels. Also stockings as dark or as light as your costume will help to make you look all of a piece.

independent living have justified any I calculate that my twenty years of existenec, and atoned, in my own eyes, for the pleasures of motherhood. My husband and I understand cach other with the

understanding middle age, which has no time for the little petty disturbances which upset young households. We companions In 11 breader, wider

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I have found my content in tbls middle-aged companionship without the slightest regrets of other things lost. I have, after all, known what not many married women know-the full and and dellelous freedom of complete independence.

A Wife

Sunshine Your Service

WHY

WHY not let the sun help with your household, tasks this sum-

mer? Every housewife knows how much whiter, cleaner, and sweeter than those dried indoors. are clothes dried in the sunshine

which the sun will coine to your aid. There are other ways, however, in If linen is scorched, while being ironed, put the article on a flat sur- face where the sun will beat down on It. Gradually the scorul marks will disappear.

Stress the vertical always. Once you've started thinking about this, you will discover all sorts of ways to do it. A dress with a ruffle After bread and pastry boards, or from neck to hem, a coat dress whose any white wood articles, have been closing is outlined with grosgrain scrubbed rinse them with really hot ribbon, a coat with buttons or a bor-water. Dry the articles, then place der of fur all the way down the them out of doors in the sunshine front, anything whose motif continues and they will become whiter than

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juvenile delinquent, because it is a these young people and what are the appears too often then, eventually [hat will have the devastating effect Then hang them all outside in the there, down to the present day, cath i

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from neck to hem will increase your apparent height,

Gleaming copper kettles, candle- Wear detall only on your sticles or trays are an ornament to bedier. This will increase the long-copper treasures, put them outside

any home. After

housewife's prayer! There are elec- polishing your THERE is little doubt that crime appearing before the court again and by the rigour of the ordinary police wear pockets on your skirt, or tiers poilsh will last longer too.

legged effect 'you want. Break up in the hot sunshine. They will ac- amongst children is on the in- again.

the bodice as you will. But don't quire an added brilliance and the official residence of the President has been installed, and there is a White House, Washington, five-thousand dollar electric stove cream freezers, bread allcers, &c. A ereuse, and the institutions to which

court... Possibly in dealing with the Judi- they are sent remand homes and cal system under which

Even If the argument that by

of ruffles.

of the United States of America, whole battery of electric refrigerators approved schools are filled to over- offenders are dealt with, wo are be- only appear the more often in the capes, have them waist-length or

Juvenile putting a child on probation It will Howing

If you must wear jackets or and tooth

Once a week collect all bath, nails, beth are visiting, seems to have been of catering and cooking for hundreds which King George and Queen Eliza- to preserve the food. Now the work ginning at the end. We may well juvenile court is used, then We have to give very serious con- inclined to find out just why there fuct, that, in any event, the child is

tell ourselves that we should be more argument may be rebutted with the figure below the welst-line.

brushes, sponges, and refurnished and redecorated by each of guests has been reduced to a that shorter. Nothing must cut your them in warm, soapy water to which,

loofahs from the bathroom. Wash President's wife who has stayed sideration to the matter of the is an increase in the numbers of under supervision, and that if li re-

a few drops of ammonia has been the wife of the first President to live inatter of national import if children reasons for this increase.

Stick to small hats,

added, and rinse well in clear water, A large are becoming generally more difficult to handle, and secondly because the increase of offences on the part of learn that laws are made to be kept, the figure types, can wear those little

I believe that the reasons for the be taken, end, it will be forced to a mushroom. And you, alone of all new lease of life.

the proper disciplinary measures will of making you look like a toad under they will be freshened and given a sunshine for an hour or two and

First futures of these young citizens are children is that they are to-day ve An Excellent Thing

Lady seems to have left her mark, so to speak. national assels or liablities, accord- inclined to consider

Madison, who came to be ing to whether they become, good or "grown-up" long before

chaicialen of White House in 1800, is themselves

caps with the most dashing effect- had citizens.

Place your mattresses in the sun described as providing a "groaning they are

pill boxes, fezzes. turbans, toques, shine by an open window. Not only board", and always had a servant to entitled to adopt that status; that The whole idea of the Children's they are inclined to take a great dent chudran, even if the process is in-caps, Scotch caps, and the taller of the sun will restore resiliency.

To my mind the supervision of poke bonnets, Flemish caps, flower will they be wel! aired but the heat attend each guest at table. She pro- Act was to create conditions under too much for granted, and that they clined to make us realise that shakos. which the "reform of the young seem to believe that they should Juvenile offences

vided the mattress sluing, and keep light the room! It was not until no less than 1,000 candles to delinquents would be

are growing In possible. have all the things they want with number, is an excellent and a good

soft and comfortable. "Reclamation should be the object out any particular endeavour on thing for it stands to reason that it ones will dwarf you. No great hunks -.. Wear amall accessories. Large

Governor Cleveland's term of

of office, in view," stated the circular issued their own partne

Feather pillows, cushions, and

about 1880, that electricity Was by the Home Omee, and reclamation,

child who lacks proper of: couturier jewellery for you, but down quilts are purified and become installed. ve all agree, is a great deal better in the dock as the result of a too the child who appears

Many a youngster, has ended up parental guidance and care who is semi-precious stones in delicately much softer and plumper. If they are White House in the early days, how- All those women who lived in the than mere punishment.

before the wrought settings. No smashing cor- pegged on the clothes-line in the ever, seemed to have overlooked wint fervid imagination, The Imaginative courts. Sacrificing the Individual

child needs practical and mental dis-

Bages to smether you either, but three sunshine on a breezy day. .elpline, and activity, such as the

If the court orders that it be re-

camellias or one orchid wom on one

Books that have become musty modern housewives Yet the Idea of treating all youth playing of team, games, to use up his manded in the charge of the prob shoulder, or at the reck of your gown through being packed away or stored o

so important the kitchen

During tion officer, we know that this officer surplus energy.

In a damp place should be placed in 24, 16, 2

many early Presidencies will have the proper opportunity and skins, because on you they will look out on, a thick, sheet of paper in the They were described as damp and

Wear small furs. No

No great fox

the sunshine,

kileliens there were never considered A principle. Children are not alike; ***

authority to enable him to discover

Open the books and spread them which redecoration was in progress. they differ in character

the conditions under which the child obvious and in quite bad taste. Keep perament just as much as their elders about the present inethod of dealing and associations to which it has been Keep everything in proportion to your pages over now and again,

their elders There is one definitely good tiling has been Uving and the temptations your furred coat collars strall, too. gurdon, where the sun's rays will overrun rats! and they should obviously be treated with children in the juvenile courts, subjectea

pour down on them. Turn the

present First Lady. as individuals when they commit and that is that they are dealt with

petifeness and you will have the polse the warmth penetrates through the the short-comings of her predecessors,

that Mrs.

has made up for all offences or misbehave.

Children bove. always been of a truly great lady. The criticism made generally to

"naughty," and always will be.

whole book, and, the, musty

odour for she Jins had the kitchen com day of the system of dealing with children would have been allowed to one class or any one type of child, chance of making good, and that the unripe fruit place on a window sill which is probably the finest in oxigl

Perhaps, fly yo

ago, these Naughtiness is not restricted to any

will vanish. children, who appear before

To ripan green tomatoes or a pletely modernised, and White House the progress beyond the "juvenile" angle and if the naughtiness of the business of finding their feet for where the sun will shine on to them ente Juvenlie courts is that justices are and would have grown up without children who are without proper them, should be in the hands of the through the glass. Turn, the fruit

can now boast an all-electric kitchen too keen to put children "on pro- any sort of guidance eventually to parental care loads them to fall into people whose experience has fitted round occasionally so that it will ment has been Installed, both to do

arion," and that this practice only discredit themselves when it was too conflict with: the law, then it-la-all them for that particular business!~ ripen evenly

The latest type of electrical equip leads to more trouble, the child late for them to be dealt with except the better that they should have the.

Lucy Freemaniis

the cooking and to do the washing-up J. O.

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to me to sacrifice, the individuat for Humane Treatment

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