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You can crochet this new-style
Bedjacket
CROCHET is a pleasant
change from knitting, and wool crochet can be done at a fairly good speed and without much bother.
The crochet bedjacket shown here
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In modelled on the newest blouse- effect lines that are becoming popular.
It is fastened down the front with zipper; but you could use a row
of buttons and add a row of loop buttonholes to the edge of the right front if you prefer.
The Pattern
These two rows for the pattern throughoul, except for the collar and sleeve edges.
1st Row-Turn with 2 ch, miss 3 ch.. 4 tr. into the next st. Rep. from to end, ending with, miss
3 ch. 1 tr. into last st.
2nd Row-1 d.c. into every st.
Back
Degin at lower edge with 70 ch. Work 2 extra ch. for turning, then work. 2 rows in pattern as given ubove. (17 groups).
Continue in the pattern, always making the groups of 4 tr, exactly over the centre of groups in previous row, at the same time shaping the side edges by increasing 1 ir, al cach end of every alternate tr. row until the work measures 10in. frum com- mencement, ending with a d.c. row. (21 groups, measuring 17in, across). Shape Armhole thus:
Ist Row Slip-st, to centre of 1st group, 2 ch, work 4 tr. in each group to the last group, 1 tr. in the last group, (1 group less at each end). 2nd Row-1 d.c. luto every st. Rep. these 2 rows twice more. (15 groups remain),
Continue in the pattern, without shaping until the armhole messures
Slip-st. across the next group (this is the centre back of neck), then work 4 de. Into each of the next 2 groups, 2 d.e, and 2 tr. into the next group, 4 tr. into each of the next 2 groups, I de. Into the 1st st. of the next group,
Fusien off.
Right Front
Begin with 30 ch. Work 2 extra ch. for turning, then work 2 rows In pattern. (0 groups).
Continue in the pattern, shaping the side edge by increasing 1 tr. at the end of every alternate tr. row until the work measures 10in. from lower edge, ending with a de, row. (11 groups).
Shape Armhole thus
1st Row-Work in pattern to the
Din. or. the straight from commence last group, I tr. into the last group. ment of shaping, ending with a d.c.
row
To Shape Shoulders and Back
of Neck
Next Row.Slip-st/ across the 1st and 2nd groups, work the following 2 groups in the usual way, work 2 fr. and 2 d.c. Instead of 4 tr. into the next group, work 4 d.c. instead of 4 tr. Into each of the next 2 groups.
2nd Row-1 d.c. Into every st. Rep. these 2 rows twice more. (8 groups remain).
Now continue without shpping until the work measures 14. from lower edge, ending with a d.c. row.
To Shape Nock
1st Now. Silp-st. across 1st group, work in pattern to end of row.
2nd Row-1 d.c. Into every st.
Cut-And-Come-Again Cakes
WHEN these cakes came to table over with a little hot sugar, and everyone in my home wants a sprinkle the lop with finely chopped second slice.
dates and figs. Dust with seved First, a date and fg inixture is caster sugar Just before placing on
the table. suitable for children.
Ingredients: lb. four, lb. mar- Nut-Fruit Cake
garine or bulter, 6 oz. caster sugar,
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January 5, 1940.
MATERIALS
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of Copley's 3-plu Rayon-Wool, A No. 9 Strat- nold crochet hook. A 14in. open end "Lightning" Plastic Fastener.
MEASUREMENTS
To fit a 3din, but. Shoulder to lower edge, 16in.
ABBREVIATIONS
Ch., chain; d.c., double cro- cách trị, treble; top, repeat; Ins., inches; st., atlich.
TENSION
2 complete patterns measure about 7in, in width. 5 com- plete patterns measure 3in. in depth.
Rep. these
The armhole
2
rows, twice more.
(3 groups.)
should now be the
same depth
back armhole.
To Shapo Shoulder ..
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Next Row.-2 ch, 1 tr. at neck edge, 4 tr. luto cuch of the next 2 #roups, 1 d.c. into the lat st, of next stroup.
Fasten off.
Left Front
Work to match the Right Frost, working all shaping' at opposite edges.
The Band
Sleeves
Make 6 ch. Turn and work in d.e. until the band in about 10in. in length for length required to st arm close-
Now commence with 2 ch, and work 16
groups into the arranging eight closely-spaced groups in the centre and four wkler-spaced groups at each side.
band,
cut shaping until the work measures Continue working in pattern with-
4in. from commencement (including the band), ending with a d.c. row.
To Shape the Top
Miss one group at each end of the next tr, row, then miss one st. at each end of every following ds. row and 2 tr. at each end of every following, r. row until the sleeve meaures Bln. from commencement, including the band. Fasten off.
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Collar
This is worked entirely in d.ce. Make 75 ch.
1st and 2nd rows-1 d.c. Into every
Here's A New Swing Step For You
THE HITLER KICK
BUT YOU MISS YOUR PARTNER
It is the Hitler Kick.
THE jitterbugs have got a new step. You turn around, wriggle like an animated snake, and do a hard kick-Just missing your partner, because, though it is a danco with a personal touch, you don't bear him the same lil will.
RESURRECTION WEDDING VOW
NEW YORK, Dec. 14. "UNTIL Resurrection, we. do part." This was the vow made by a girl at her wedding service to-day.
Her bridegroom was dead. She stood by his open coffin.
The girl, Ida Knapp, of
It's a lively step, and you can put as much expression in it as you want. They are swinging this revised "Holl Hitler" gesture in London.
The suburbs on a Sunday night in black-out sound as lively as the beach in a winter fog, but at Ham- |mersmith I found more life than in the whole of the West End, saye a Correspondent,
Colebrook, New Hampshire.radually local authorities are re-
was carrying out the last wish of her flance, Clayton Bennett.
On the eve of their wedding Bennett was fatally hurt in a motor crash. His dying words to Ida were: "Let the wed- ding go through, whatever happens."
The service was performed by the Rev. James Quinby.
He made Ida repcat her "Resurrection" vow as she slipped n ring on the finger of the dead man.”
On her own finger she placed a ring Bennett had bought for her only two days! ago.
Took Off Clothes At
"20 Below"
MOST war heroes win fame through facing shot and shell in the heat of battle.
Here la the story of a man who exposed himself for hours on end 10 52 degrees of frost to succour wounded comrade.
The half-n-crown hop at the Palais menns a lot in the life of the young people who work five and a half days. In week. At the beginning of Vie war they were closed down, but
opening them, and one more fairy- light of our pre-black-out days is twinkling again.
Finding the Palais
hard enough, though the regulars need no midday sun to guide them. · Onco In- alde, they just hung their gasmaske on a hat-peg and got going.
"Camo on,” shouted the crooner. "Get hot. let yourselves 20. forget it all,
The band didn't play any of the old war tunce-or" the new ones. There is enough of that outsidy, and they were made for marches, nol dances. Instead they swung the "Flat Foot Floogle," or lulled "them atong en "Deep Purple.”
It was the true atmosphere of this war, the 1930 war. The girls with their short wilk dresses swinging out from the hips, their long Ginger Roger curls tapping on their shoulders, and their arms flying around elastic bands,
and feet oui as if they were
PIERCING
A few soldiers were there, having a night out, doing a rumba like Spaniard, or slapping their belts in the jam session.
Then there was a clarinet solo, as piercing us a siren. A young girl with a halo of ginger curis stepped. out to do a solo wriggle, while the rest gathered round her, tapping, clapping, singing.
front,
The organ, ke coloured ice, come in, ringing
with glass
bells and pounding away a drep base. The neon lights, enoking Beroes the the dancers with # roof, covered hard metallic glow. The deed was performed during felt that this was a
I watched from the balcony and contemporary
He is an .CO. observer in the Royal Air Force. His name
is an official secret.
many,
There were two touches of war for
one of those long-distance reconninis- sance flights into the heart of Gor-picture for the history books, just as jour parents in 1014 were photo- 3rd row-Increase by working 2
tight 4.c. into the 6th st., then in every
The plane flew for most of the aphed in high collars and
skirta doing a fox-trot at armas following 8th st, to the end, ending Journey nt a height where the tem-
perature was 20 degrees below zero. Soon it will be a petrol piece, but
length, with I d.c. into each of the last 6 st.
While returning from its objective Sunday night In Hammersmith, the Works 2 rows without shaping, then in the next row increase by working it was hit by anti-aircraft fire, and Army was going hot under its khaki
the air-gunner was wounded; 2 d.a. into the st. over each increasing of previous increasing row.
To reach him it was necessary to sit did a stomp and a high klek. Rep. these last 3 until the quize through a narrow opening the history book. While they danced
TOWB collar
inside the fuselage. Incasures 2in. from com:
the tables behind them were piled up mencement.
First Aid
with gas masks and vanity cases. Fasten, oft.
Only a few of the girls came in even- The N.C.O, observer could do soling dress, because it is easier to walk only by discarding his parachute home in a short dress and a tweed harness, life-saving jacket and warm coat. outer clothing.
mask to show the boys, and ner badly wounded in the hand and began proudly polishing the eye- thigh,
pieces with a handkerchief,
To Make Up
eggs. Anz, stoned and chopped dates, For the grown-ups' Sunday tea.
Join the side, shoulder and sleeve -4oz.-chopped-figs,-the-juice of half-Ingredients:margarine seams Insert sleeves into armholes, a lemon, a tableap. of golden syrup, butter, lb, sugar, 1 tablespoonful placing the seams to the side seams a tablup, of milk.
of syrup 3 eggs teaspoonful of
and easing ony extra fullness at the Line a greased tin with parchment vinegar can be used instead of one
top of the sleeve on elther side of the paper. Sleve the flour and ant tos of the eggs), % pint milk, 14oz. flour shoulder seam, Sew short edge of gether, add the chopped frult, stir casp. bokng powder, 1 teasp. collar to neck edge, Work a row of in the spices and lemon juice.
vanilin essence, Goz. sultones; 50%. double crochet
down fronts raisins, Boz, chopped dates, 3oz.
and round lower Thorough Beating
edge of jacket, also chopped nuts,
Cream butler or margarine and round edge of collar, Sew the Zip Cream butter and sugar, ndd eggs add the syrup. Break the eggs into edges.
fostener into position along the front gradually and beat well. Stir in the a basin, mix with the milk, and add wanned syrup and a little warmed to the creamed mixture alternately milk, and add to the rest of the in- with the sifted flour, stirring in the gredients. Mix thoroughly.
baking powder with the last portion
Four into the greased tin and bake of flour. in a moderate oven for two hours. Regulo mark at 4.
Add the prepured fruit and the vanilla casence, buke in a slow oven
Whilst the cake is still hot, brush for 24 hours. Oven mark 3.
I HAVE FOUND-
SHORT CUTS
"The under sheet should be folded THAT old socks sewn together and snugly under the mattress at both
put over the head of the mop ends in making a bed. Mitered cor-
make excellent floor pollahiers.
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Tea and cocoa stalnis on the table- cloth should be treated at once, Wash out in cold water first, then pour boiling water through.
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Hot plate marks on polished tables
ners make for efficiency and add to
the trim appearance of the bed.
Sauces may be kept hot over hot water in a double boiler without getting thick and pastry.
Drop cookies must be separated will spread out and run together.
are lessened by rubbing lightly with sumciently from each other or they
a soft cloth dipped in a little olive all and salt.
ADVICE TO NURSING MOTHERS
J. J.
It is very important, doctors 'any, not to overtax your system Immediately after the birth of a child. When you are feeding baby yourself, you should take plenty of easily digested nourish ment,
When a recipe calls for lake- warm liquid test temperature by palling a drop on the writ
COULD NOT LAND
Chungking, Jan, 4. The plane bearing the British Am- bassador, Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, arrived abovò Chungking at 0.15 a.m. *to-day and was kept two hours in the fair waiting to land, owing to visibility.
being practically all. In the recommend
Very thick mist it was impossible to wee 20 yards ahead.
For that reason, doctors throughout China Horlicks. They have proved that Horilcks stimulates the appetite,
Unable to wali further owing to| promotes sound Bleep and gasoleno shortage, the plane landed strengthens the whole systeni, fat. 10.15 am, et another airfleld in Also Horlicka increases the the suburbs where the fog WAS
thinner, supply of maternal milk and ensures the success of breast feeding,
Over 100 people were anxiously waiting on the island airfield, includ- ing British Consulate officials," repre-
Get Horlicks to-day from your sentatives of the Jocal British com-
stord.
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munity. Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Sino-British Boxer Indent- nity Fund Committee-United-Press.
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Having done this he found the gun-gas
An ambulance_driver.look.put.hia.
He dressed the hand wound with al No one talked politics. They just first-aid kit, but decided to leave the cat out, sipping lemonade, talking more serious thigh wound untouched, about the things they did inat week. realising that loosening the wounded The soldiers, sitting out with their man's clothing would probably cause girls, did not disturb their fow hours' dangerous loss of blood,
leave with Army talk. Warming him with his body had) They all got up for the waltz, a encouraging him with reports of their faster, smarter veralon than the 1914 but still the same 'Blue progress the observer remained with waltz, the wounded man until they were
Danube" tune.
Then at ten the dance ended. And clear of Germany.
they walked home between the sand. bags.
He then returned to the front cock- pit and attended to his navigationa!] duties till his base was in sight.
Then he again crawled back to the wounded air gunner and stayed with him until they landed.
Always Froozing
Throughout the return light from! Germany the observer was" without:
Missed 109th Birthday
his flying clothing in a temperature By Four Days
always below freezing point.
During the series of daylight re-
connaissances over Germany photo-1 A WOMAN who died re- graphs have been taken of towns, cently was born when Queen harbours and milltary objectives at Victoria was a girl of 11. low altitudes, despite fighters and rundre attacks.
She Wag Britain's oldest
More than 100 photographs show-woman, Mrs. Emma Coate, of ing enemy military objectives in con- North Curry, near Taunton. |siderable" detail and containing in- Had she lived four more days she
formation of vital importance were would have been 100. brought back from a single recor→ naissance.
In 1839, when she was born; William IV had been king for five
In one recent raid 10 enemy zero- | montlik, drones were photographed, in addi-
Dir. Huskisson had just been killed
tion to the well-defended towns i, at the opening of the Liverpool and
Enden and Hamburg.
Edna Off
To Reno
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EDNA BEST, the English film and stage. actress, is leaving Hollywood for Reno to secure a divorce from Herbert Marshall.
Her twin sons, James and John Beard, now aged 17, and her daugh- ter, Sarah Marahall, aged 6, are with her In Hollywood.
Edna Best was married to Seymour Beard, the actor, a friend of her child- hood in 1920. A year later her twin sons were born.
In 1028 the marriage was dissolved; Mr. Herbert Marshall being cited as -co-respondent. · At the same time Mr, Marshall was divorced by his wife.
In December 1928 Mr. Marshall' and ] "Miss Best' were inarried in New York, '
Manchester Kallway.
In the previous year the Rocket had startled the world by slearning at 25 miles an hour, and London's first bus had run from Paddington to the Bank,
A few weeks age the old Indy weat for a car ride.
Since
the war began sho had continually asked for the latest news. Fear' of alr ralds never worried her. She had no children. Her husband, a farmor, died at the age of 88 about 30 years ago.
Franch General Dies On Western Front
PARIS, Dec. 14. THE first French general .to be killed in the war, General of Division Raymond Pigenud, was buried at Valde- grace to-day.
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