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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 colour. 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 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 unkle. Darker stockings will take away that leggy look. And don't worry about calling atten- 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-tine. 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.

Streng the kodicontal. Avoid vertical stripes. long or swat ger lines, especially buttons, orders, or any detall parading all the way down from neck to hem.

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June 13, 1939.

I Married At

Forty

I HAVE Just completed the first Your of a marriage which began when I was forty. have never for ane moment regretted it.

Morcover, this marriage of mine was not the desperately grasped lasi araw held out to the struggling plain Jane in the waters of approach- init spinslerhood. I have had plenty of chances, and I have chosen, quite deliberately, to await this last,

Young girls are Inclined to snigger at the comical spectacle of a bride in her middle age. Perhaps, though, the middle-aged bride bas the laugh on them. This much do I know. I have had had rather less delirious happiness, decidedly less misery, and I would not for the world have ex- changed my honeymoon and frat year of married to for more gaudy edition staged in the twenties,

There are few things more intense than the idealism of n young girl In her outlook upon marciage; and marriage, being what it is, can never hope to keep these ideais intact. Sooner or later in most marriages they must break, and with each breaking there in stormy weather about the home. Of that breaking of ideals I have had nothing.

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During twenty-two years spinsterhood, when I was eligible for marriage. I have seen what caused urhappiness 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 Locts.

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 young.

Justifiable Independence

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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 slxty she will have known only

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cone with dark stockings of a neu-familiar thing-marriage, By at least two more. Or you can wear tral shade, and square toes, short time I am sixty I shall have known a veil to excellent advantage. vamps, open toes, and sandals cut not only twenty years of marriage.

Wear low-heeled, short-

down at the side to the sole albu: aisa twenty years, easily re- foreshorten the foot, vamped, square-tocd shoes, Low-

called, of perfect freedom when I Wear heeled shoes are a boon, especially

large accessories. Stick to low, wide hats. Obviously small capa make

for dancing when a long frock hides Carry the biggest bag you can find. enjoyed the thrill of being mistress the feet. The trouble is, low-heeled Cover your long wrists with great in the career I had chosen for myself. of my own destinies and well placed figure look pin-headed. Do not con- fine yourself to picture hats, but if

shoes worn with street clothes are borbaric handcuffs, glittering "col- With an ordinary sailor you can opt to make ankles look larger and lections of bracelets by night, you wear a turbon it should not be save yoursel an inch. With a feet longer.

The bigger your accessories, the Independent living have justifled my 1 calculate that my twenty years of turned-down brim you can cut off The first difficulty can be over more they dwarf your height. existence, and toned, in my own

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eyes, for the pleasures of motherhood. Your long neck needs big collara of long-haired fur. Your shoulders need broadening with double-skin starfs or red or silver fox. You are the one type who can carry them off without seeming vulgar.

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Fashion Notes

DARISIAN shoemakers in recent

years have collaborated much inore closely with the dressmakers, so that now shoes to match ench 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 allied to those for bags.

Indeed; to-day it is almost essential to choose hoth together. Crocodile Ella is popular for walkingshoes and because the skin Itself has a decidedly decorative value, the court shoes and and simple shapes are ett on classical lines, while bags to go with thern are usually rectangular, nearly square, and filed with looped handles to slip over the arm.

Rather more fonnal are 2 new series of suede and antelope shoes, trinumed will coloured crocodile skin br with finer lizard-skins which are making a determined bid to gain new popularily. Antelope shoes trimmed with kid are also fashionable, and dark violet shoes may have straps of cyclamen plak kid down the sides of

the 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 mahogany brown.

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You can by taking thought, add cubits to your apparent stature. Here's how.

Use long, unbroken princess) lines. That

means

wear dresses rather than suits whenever possible. It means no wide bells or funies or peplums or short coils to cut the

figure horizontally.

Raise the waist-line to gain

leg length. If you wear a belt, wear

it above the natural waistline. This

waist will be slig-tly larger than the

My husband and I understand euch other with the understanding of middle nge, which has no time for the little petty disturbances which upset young households. We companions In broader, wider sense.,

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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 full and and delicious freedom of complete independence.

-Sunshine-

A Wife

Your Service

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natural one because it will be located Why not let the sun this with just at the floating rib. But the leg length you gain will more than commer? Every housewife knows how! pensite.

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

much whiter, cleaner, and sweeter ure clothes dried In the sunshine than those dried indoors.

There are other ways, however, in which the sun will come to your nid. Ir nen is scorched while being ironed, put the article on a flat sur- face where the sun will beat down on t. Gradually the scorch 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 serubbed rinse them with rently hot ribbon, a coat with buttons or a bor- water. Dry the articles, then place. der of tur 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 incrense your apparent helght.

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stick or trays are an ornament to:

housewife's prayer! There are clés bodice. This will increase the long copper treasures, put them outside any home. After polishing your legged effect you want. 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 thera polish will 15st longer too,

the bodice as you will. But

Break up in the hot sunshine.

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

They will ne-THE White don't

Washington, five-thousand dollar electric stove quire an added brittanen and the official residence of the President has been installed, and there is a crease, and the institutions to which Possibly in dealing with the Judi- they are entremand homes and cal system under which juvenile pulling a child on probation it will

of the United States of Americo,whole battery of electric refrigerators 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..

If you must wear jackets or and

Once a week collect all bath, nalla, 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 flowing,

ginning at the end.. We may well juvenile court is used, then

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

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

thut shorter, Nothing must cut your them in warm, soapy water to which, From the days of Abigail Adams, sideration to the matter of the is an increase in the numbers of under supervision, and that if il re-i

a few drops of ammonia has been the wife of the Brst President to live juvenile delinquent, because it is 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 First Lady seems to have left her

Stick to small hats. matter of national import if children reasons for this increase..

added, and rinse well in clear water. there, down to the present day, each A large 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

the proper disciplinary measures will of making you look like a toad under they will be freshened and given a to handic, and secondly because the increase of offences on the part of learn that laws are made to be kept the gure types, pan wear those littlew lease of life.

aunshine for un hour or two and mark, so to speak. futures of these young citizens are children is that they are to-day too

Dolly Madison who came to be national assets or inbillties, decord- inclined

chatelaion of White House in 1009, is ing to whether they become good or "grown-up" long before

consider themselves An Excellent Thing

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

they are eas

pill boxes, Lezzes. To my mind the supervision of poke bonnets, Flemish cops, flower will they be well sired but the heat attend each guest at table. She pro- entitled, to adopt that status; that

turbans, toques,zhine by an open window. Not only board" and always had a servant to The whole idea of the Children's they are inclined to take a great deal children, even if the process is in-caps, Scotch caps, and the taller of the sun will restore realllency 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 LIS which the refonn" of the young seem to believe

réalise that shakos.

the mattress stuffing.. and keep it light the room! it was that they

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soft md comfortable. possible, have all the things they want with number, is an excellent and a good Wear small accessories. Large

Governor Cleveland's term of office, "Reclamation should be the object out any particular endeavour on thing, for it stands to reason that it ones will dwart you. No great hunks Feather pillows, cushions,

about 1890, in view," stated the circular issued their own part.

that electricity was is the child

and installed. who Jacks by the Home Office, and reclamation, Many youngster has ended up parental guidance and care who is semi-precious stones in delicately much better and plumper if they are white House in the early days, how- proper of couturier jewellery for you, but down quilts are purified and become All those women who lived in the 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 maching cor- pegged on the clothes-line in the ever, seemed to have overlooked what

fervid Imagination. The Imaginative courts.. child needs practical and mental dia-

kages to smother you either, but three sunshine on a breezy day. camellias or one orchid wom on one cipline, and activity, such as the manded in the charge of the probe-

Books that have become musty modem housewives to-day consider Yet the idea of treating all youth- playing of team games, to use up his lion oficer, we know that this officer

If the court orders that it be re-shoulder, or at the neck of your gown through being packed away or stored so important the kitchens. During in a damp place should be placed in kitchens there, were never considered many carly Presidencies the ful offenders in the same way seems surplus energy. to me to sacrifice the individual for Humane Trediment

The sunslilne. Wear small-fur. No great will have the proper opportunity and a principle. Children are not alike;

authority to enable him to discover skins, because on you they will look out or a thick sheet of paper in the They were described us damp and Open the books and spread them when redecoration was in progress.

they differ in, character

the conditions under which the child obvious and in quite bad taste. Keep garden, witern the sun's rays will overrun with rats perament 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 all

Thero is one definitely good thing has been living and the temptations your furred coat collars small too. pour and they should obviously be treated with children, in the juvenile courts, subjected.

However, the present Firet Lady,- as individuals when they commit and that is that they are dealt with

petiteness and you will have the poise the warmth penetrates through the the short-comings of her predecessors, offences or mlabehnya,

Children have always been of a truly great Indy. on humane · Hoes.

whole book, and the musty odour for she has had the kitchens com- "navglity," and always will be. Perhaps, Afty years, ogo, thesa Naughtiness is not restricted to any!

will vanish,

pletely modernised, and White House To ripon green tomatoes or any can now boast an all-electric kitchen.

than mero punishment. Sacrificing the Individual

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Ther criticism made generally- to-- day of the system of dealing with children would have been allowed to one cinas or any one type of child, chance of making good, and that the unripe fruit place on a window all which is probably the finest in existshould be addressed children, who appear before the progress beyond the Juvenile" angle and the naughtiness of these business of finding their feet for where the sun will shine on to them ence.A Juvenile 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 The latest type of electrical equip loo keen to put children on pro- any sort of guidance eventually to parental cara lends them to fall into people whose experience: has fitted round occasionally so ballon," and that this practice only discredit themselves when it was too confilet with the law, then It is all them for that particular business, leads to inore trouble, the child late for them to be dealt with except the better that they should have the!..

that it willment has been installed, both to do ripen evenly, ------·· Lucy · Freemantla”

the cooking and to do the washling-up.

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