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Make your clothes work for you

Every oman wants to kume how to took her best not only how to make the most-of-her-good-pointe,-bul,-oven- more important, how to turn her defects into assets. This serial—which 30,000 women bought in bank form in America-will show her how to do just that.

IF YOU ARE

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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 colmer. This means wear suits 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 und three-quarter length capes. Wear odd jackets of n 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 unkle. Darker stockings will take away that leggy look. And don't worry about calling aften- tion to your feet. We'll get to them in a moment.

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

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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

Moreover, this marriage of mine was not the desperately grasped last straw held out to the struggling pinin 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 anigger at the comical spectacle of a bride in her middle age. Perhaps, though, the middle-aged bride has the laugh on them. This much "do" I know. have had had rather less delirious 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 edilion staged in the twenties.

There are few things more intense than the idealtam.oL a young girl in her outlook upon marriage:

and marriage, being what it is, can never hope to keep these idents intact. Sooner or later in most marriages they must break, and with

each breaking there is stormy weather about the home. Of that breaking of ideals I have had nothing.

During twenty-two years of spinsterhood, 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. 1 have found in it affection, content companionship, with none of the natural Intolerance of the young.

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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 will have known only come with dark stockings of a neu- familiar Or you can wear tral shade, and square toes, short time I am sixty I shall have known thing-marriage. By the vamps, open toes, and sandals cut not only twenty years of marriage.

to the sole ali Wear low-heeled, short- down at the side

but

also twenty years, easily foreshorten the foot. vamped, square-toed shoes,

called, of perfect freedom when heeled shoes are

Wear large accessorica, enjoyed the thrill of being mistress boon, especially for dancing when a long frock hides Carry the biggest bag you can find of my own destinies and well placed HH the feet. The trouble is, low-heeled Cover your long wrists with greas in the carcer had chosen for myself.

shoes worn with street clothes are barbarle handcuffs, glittering "col- With an ordinary sallor you can apt to make ankles look larger and lections of bracelets by night.

With a feet longer.

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

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

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figure look pin-headed. Do not con- fine yourself to picture hats, but if you wear a turbon it should not be save yourself is close turban.

Fashion Notes

PARISIAN hoemakers in recenj

years have collaborated much more closely with the dressmakers, so that now shoes to match each costume are a feature of nearly every! dress collection..

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

to choose both

Indeed, to-day it is almost essential both together. Crocodile for walkingshoes and

the skin

skin is popular felf has a decidedly derative value, the court shoes and and simple shapes are cut on classical lines, while bags to go with them are i usually rectangular, nearly square, and filted with looped handles to slip over the arm

2 new

Rather more formal are series of suede and antelope shoes, trimmed with coloured crocodile skin or with finer lizard-skins which are making a determined bid 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 thic foot.

Many unexpected colours come in- 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 mibogony brown.

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IF YOU ARE SHORT

The Problem Of The Bad Child

c. by taking thought, add YOU

cubits to your apparent stature. Here's how.

Use long, unbroken princess lines. That means went dresses rather than sults whenever possible. It means no wide belts or tunts or peplums or short couts to cut the figure horizontally."

Raise the waist-line to vain leg length. If you wear a belt, wear it above the natural waistline. This waist will be slightly larger than the natural one because it will be located just at the Boating rib. But the leg length you gain will more than con- pensate.

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

Stress the vertical alicaps. Once you've started thinking about this, you will discover all sorts of

I calculate that my twenty years of Independent living have justified my existence, and atoned, in my own eyes, for the pleasures of motherhood. My husband and I understand each

the understanding middle age, which has no time for the tile petty disturbances which upset young households. We companions a broader, wlder

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

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Sunshine

Your Service

HY not let the sun help with:

your household tasks this sun- mer? Every housewife knows how much whiter, cleaner, and sweeter than those dried Indoors. are clothes dried in the sunshine

There are other ways, however. In which the sun will come to your aid. If inen is scorched while being troned, put the article on a flat sur- face where the sun will beat down on I Gradually the scorch marks; will disappear.

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 pritcies, 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 then out of doors. In the sunshine front, anything whose motif continues and they will become whiter than from neck to hem will increase your ever. apparent height,

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Oh grandmama!

THE tight frilled bodice nad 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 mald, but she achieves it by watching her diet and her drinks. Her cocktail for example is always a Gimler because- she knows that the girl who insists on Rose's Lime Juice today avoids a headache and a Rubens contour tomorrow.

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HERE 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 quire an added. brillance and the of the United States of America, whole battery of electric refrigerators

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Gleaming copper kettles, candle- Wear, detail only

sticks or trays are an ornament to bodice. This will increase the long-copper treasures, put them outside any home. After polishing your

The White House housewife's prayer! There are elec- legged effect you want.

trical meat grinders, food mixers, ice- the bodlee as you will. But don't

But in the hot sunshine. They will ac-THE White House.

cream freezers. bread slicers, &c. A amongst children is on the in- again.

Washington, five-thousand dollar electric crease, pad the Institutions to which

stove official residence of the President has been installed, and there is a they are, sent-remand homes and cal system under which juvenile putting a child on probation it will

polish will last longer too. if the argument that by approved schools are filled to over- offenders are dealt with, we are be- only appear the more often in the capes, have them waist-length or loofahs from the--bathroom, Wash President's wife who has stayed there, minimum.

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 If you must wear jackets or und flowing.

ginning at the end. We may well juvenile court is used. then that shorter Nothing must cut

tooth brushes, sponges, and returnished and redecorated by each of guests has been reduced to a- We have to give very serious can- inclined to find out just why there fact, that, in any event, the child is

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

your them in warm, soapy water to which, sideration to the matter of-

a low drops of ammonia has been the wife of the first President to live

From the the is an inercase in the numbers of under supervision, and that if it re- juvenile delinquent, because It is a these young people and what are the appears too often then, eventually hat will have the devastating effect sunshine for an hour or two and mark, so to

days of Abigail Adams, matter of national Import it children reasons for this increase,

Stick to small hats.

added, and rinse well in clear water. there, down to the present day, each A large Then hang them all outside in the First Lady seems to have left her are becoming generally more difficult I believe that the reasons for the be laken, and, It will be forced to a mushroom. And you, alone of all they will be freshened und given a

the proper disciplinary measures will of making you look like a load under futures of these young citizens are children is that they are to-day too

Dolly Madi hallopal assets or liabilities, accord- inclined to

case of life.

who come to be chateloten of White House in 1809, is ing to whether they become good or "grown-up" long before

consider themselves An Excellent Thing

caps with the most dashing effect-- Place your mattresses in the sun- described as providing a "groaning bad citizens.

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 To my mind the supervision of poke bannots, Flemish caps, flower will they be well-aired but the heat attend each guest at table. She pro- The whole idea of the Children's they are inclined to take a great deut children, even if the process Is in caps, Scoleh caps, and the taller of the sun will restore resillency to vided no less than 1,000 candles to Act was to create conditions under too much for granted, and that they clined to make which the "reform" of the young seem to believe that they should juvenile offences are growing in

us realise that (shaltos.

the mattress stuffing and keep it light the room! 11 delinquents

was not until would Le possible, have all the things they want with number, is on excellent and a good

soft and comfortable: "Reclamation should be the object out any

Wear small accessories, Latge

Governor Cleveland's term of office, in view," stated the circular Issued their own part.

particular endeavour on thing, for It stands to reason that it ones will dwarf you... No great hunks down quilts are purified and become

Feather pillows, cushions, and installed.

about 1800, that electricity is the child who Incles. by the Home Office, and reclamation. 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-

proper of couturier Jewellery for you, but we all agree, is a great deal better in the dock as the result of a too the child who appears before the wrought settings. No smashing cor- pegged on the clothesline in the ever, soomed to have overlooked what All those women who lived in the than mere punishment, --

fervid imagination. The Imaginative courts.

sages.to smother you either, but three sunshine-on- e -breezy-day," Sacrificing the Individual

child needs practical and mental dis-

comellias or one orchid worn on one

Dooks, that have become musty modern housewives, to-day consider elpline, and activity, such ns the If the court orders that it be re-shoulder, or at the neck of your gown through being packed away or stored an important--the kitchens. During Yet the idea of treating pill youth, playing of teant games, to use up his manded in the charge of the proba ful offenders in the same way, seems surplus energy.

tion officer, wo know that this officer

in a dump place should be placed in the many early Presidencies the 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 to me to sacrifice the ludividual for Humane, Treatment-

Wear mall furs. No great fox

the sunshine.

kitchens there were never considered a principle. Children are not alike;

authority to enable him to discover

Open the books and spread them when redecoration was. in progress. they differ in character and tem“). There is one definitely good thing has been living and the temptations your furred coat collars small, too. pour down on

the conditions under which the child obvious and in quite bad taste. Keep garden. where the sun's rays will overrun with ratal

damp parament just as much as their elders about the present method of dealing and associations to which it has been Keep everything in proportion to your pages over now and again, so that Mrs. Roosevelt, has made up for alt

them. Turn the and they should obviously be treated with children in the juvenile courts, subjected.

However, the present First Lady, as Individuais when they commit and that is that they are dealt with Children have always

petiteness and you will have tie polse the warmth penetrates through the the short-comings of her predecessors, offences or misbehave.

of a truly great Indy. on humane lines

naughty, and always will be.

whole book, and the; musty-odour for she has bad the kitchens com The criticism inkde generally to- Perhaps; 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 pisice on

fifty years ago, these Naughtiness is not restricted to any

will vanlahit More 3'

pletely modernised, and White House To ripen green tomatoes or any can now boast an all-electric kitchen children, who appear before the progress beyond the "Juvenile angle and if the naughtiness of those business of finding their feet for where the sun will shine on to them ence of election coul

window which is probably the finest in exlit Juvenilpenarts 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 The latest t too keen to put children "on. pro any sort of guidance, eventually to parental care: lends them to fall into people whose experience has atted round occasionally so that it wilment has been installed, both to do batlar, and that this practice only discredit themselves when it was too confilet with the law, then it is all them for that particular business....

type of leads to more trouble, chikl late for them to be dealt with except the better that they should have-thel

ripen evenly.

Sf the coolcbig and to do the washing-up Lucy Freemanilo

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