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Ways With Mirrors

IN the latest furnishing schemes the -part played by mirrors is more im- portant than ever. Mirrors are em- ployed to make, emali ́rooms seem larger, to transform dull, dark cor- ners into light and cheerful nooks, ́and sometimes, to heighten the effect

of an interior colour scheme.

In considering the possibilities of mirrors it is necessary to remember that there are coloured mirrors nowadays, in addition to the ordinary alivered kind. You can get peach and gold-tinted glass, or blue, green, or delicate rose-pink.

The modern mirror is often, but not always, unframed and plainly Anished. When It is fixed to the wall with gilt or silver-headed screws It is a thing of beauty in itself, and frequently it gives the necessary touch of style to the whole furnishing ensemble.

Some of the best of the framed mirrors have just simple moukilng of onk or walnul, round them, but there are also very burate ones with "ple-crust" frames and carved ornamentation. Thes mirrors well with the new period furniture which Is Increasing in popularity. So you may have either modern un- framed mirrors or framed period ones; both are fashionable.

A Suitable Position

A good place for a long, rectangular mirror' is on the wall at the back of a selice. The length of the mirror should be a little less than that of the settee, and if the proportions are right you will then find that the part played by the looking-glass is decóra- five as well as practical.

If one were dealing with a room that has a low celling, an illusion of greater height can be crented if the mirror is fixed perpendicularly, that the height is greater than the breadth,

Often this treatment gives good re- sults on a dark landing, where it is desired to increase the dayBght by reflection.

Corner Arrangement

Sometimes, too, a small room has a window which goes right into a cor-

MIDGE: "I'm very good today, can I have throo helpings of pudding to-morrow?"

T

HE endless pro- cession of meals can conjure up a long string of problems, especially for those homemakers who have to cater .for finicky appetites.

dealing with

I am some of their problems to-day, for this is a subject on which my advice is very often asked. In the case of young children, I suggest variety in the way suitable foodo are dished up; with Invalids and those on a restricted diet c possible to discover some unusual dah which contains suitable In- gredients but will tempt a difficult appetite.

Mild "Heart"

Father suffers from mild heart trouble and doctor advises us to put him on a "light diet." What does this mean

DOCT

his case?

OCTOR has probably advised you not to give the patient much liquid, Gut thirst can be quenched by sucking a few sections of orange or a slice of lemon,

The chlef aim is to give foods that are ensily digested so that no wind will form to lay pressure on the heart muscle and increase its work.

ner. If a mirror is fixed to the wal | Diet For Daughter

et right-angles to the window, and if the mirror is the some size as the

window, the reflection gives the illusion of an up-to-date corner case- ment. To make this effect quite per. fect; the mirror may be draped with a põimet umì valance Fimilar to those used for the window.

A

staughter sufera from mild

Spring Clothes In The Making

100 busy making fashions to tulk

about them" might very well be the official motto of the Paris dress

In a small room, if you want to avold the sense of four walls too near each other, you can do this by hang- ing two mirrors of the same size exactly opposite each other. By re-designer: nothing but the work exists. fection ncross and across the illusion is crented of an apparently endless vista. With a frieze, or band of mirrors all round the walls, you fet the amusing impression that you can sce into the next room. This can be very striking in n smartly-furnished sitting-room.

A very good but somewhat more expensive alternative is to have the -whole-of-one-wall-panelled-In-look- ing glass; the room will then be doubled by reflection and will took twice its actual size. It makes the interior seem lighter as well as Iarger.

Baseden Butt

The "covered-up" look is modi-

fled in the new ovening gowns for spring, as shown in this smart int gown. The covered shoul- ders and draped square neckline, as well as the semi-drindi adri fullness, are new and becoming fashion note. This dress was shown recently at a fashion Iuncheon in New York's Rix- Cartion.

This is not a pose of indifference or lofty detachment from the world-t Is increly a rent absorption, shared by most creative artists, in the job in hand.

Nor has any one of them a single doubt of the importance of his role at present-that rate is only too obvious. As Monsieur Luelen Le- long. president of the Chambre Syndicale de la Couture, points out, The soldiers are protecting us on the Western Front-we must do our ul- must to defend the Country on the Economie Front!"

Tackled in that spirit, difficulties and annoyances are only an additional apur to higenuity and inventiveness.

New Fabric Collections

Tuesday,

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Breakfast,

Dinner, Tea..

Baby still noods a helping hand with his cup.

They all bring problems

kidney trouble, and the doctor will be eaten only in small amounts, so not allow her to take either red meat the food must be seasoned with substi

tutés, such as celery and lemon juice.

Toddler's Det

or eggs. It is dificult to vary her food. Suggestions, please.

Many vegetables now in season are good for her-carrots, cabbage, cauli- lower, leeks, tomatoes, artichoken- which can be cooked in many different ways and made to look appetising.

The chief difficulty is that salt must

I am in despair about my toddler, aged 14 months. She refuses to take anything buil battle feeds and an oocasional biscuit. Weight 271b.; she is bonny, but rather fretful.

BOTTLES should have been given

up about the age of seven to eight months, and by this time your daughter should have been tak ing regular well-balanced meals, Including Aah, minced meat. shavings from the joint, brains, vegetables and stewed fruit.

Put the bottle away for good and persevere with the spoon

Rose in Bloom

A cluster of full- blow flowers in velvet old rose trims the high. crown of a shovel brim black felt. Satin ribbon cas- cades shoulder length, covering the hair at back.

Should Men Use Cosmetics?

ASKS A MODERN MAN

Both dye ingredients and skilled THE other day. I met a friend of "but aren't you going to rather ridi- workmen are scarce nowadays. T Fortunately, however, the couture is ..mne. He is a commercial travel- culous lengths in your argument?"

nably supported by the French fabric ler, and apart from having all the Masculine Conceptions manufacturers. The new spring turruilty peculiar to his calling, he

fabric collections were well under can lay claims to railer original "By no means," replied my friend, way even before the outbreak of war, brain. He prides himself on being knocking the ashes out of his pipe. and they are simply magnificent this unorthodox.

time.

tled

Says

NURSE HESTER

feeding. If you refuse further bottle feeds, baby will give in within 48 hours.

She is far above tha averago weight for her ago now, but such fat is not healthy; she needs to be making muscle, bons and strong teeth, and the jawa will not alapo properly un- Jess alle has plenty of hard chewing to do. Avold bla cults; at her age she needa rusks or hard-baked crusts to chew. Give them before tho meni to promote a plentiful flow of salive,

Lazy Eater

Welther coaxing nor, scolding will bring my small son of six to get on with his meals. He dreams and dawdies er cisc takes a spoonful into his mouth and then turns it round for apes with. out, attempting to swallow it.

You say that you set Sonny's ment rendy for him, then leave him to take it while you go on with your housework.

You would do well to break off to have a proper meal yourself, both for your own sake and for the boy'n, No child will willingly eat on his own.

I advise you to set the table for two and to prepare for yourself and the boy. Serve him from the various dishes and lake the same yourself.

He will soon follow your example if you show that you expect him to ent properly. Give him small por- flans, but don't let him go back to his play till he has Anished. Incl. dentally, he will learn to manage lile spoon and fork better if you aro thero to watch him.

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This is very economical and a "Often when I've been calling on Keneral favourite. Take 2 carrots, ! The conversation which we had business men, I have asked myself, small turnip, 2 unions, 2 tablespoons

revealed

striking Why are our sex so the As for all the little personal detalls certainly

up 50- by Here is

sculine conceptions? I refer, Barine or dripping, 2 quarts water; called and accessories so dear to the hearts originality of his outlook.

ut

to those occasions when nepper and salt, of dress designerswell, when did brief account of our talk:-

of have been feeling seedy. I have caught some people prefer to put them

Of course,

Prepare and diee the vegetables. "Look here," sold my friend, the genius or Paris designers ever! depend on a button or belt-buckle? don't see any reason why men should sight of my reflection in a mirror, through the mincer. Melt the fat in And in any case, most of the button not

The and shuddered at my dyspeptic ap- the soup pan, add the vegetables, and and accessory people are still at work, feminine practice of using cosmeties." pearance. How I have wished that I toss them well in the fat. Now add

adopt

for

themselves

and show the most amazing Ingenuity "Great Scol!" I exclaimed in sur- could banish the sallowness from the batmeal or flour, and stir til it

effeminate but, of my checks at such times! You know, is beginning to colour. in coping with the shortage of skilled prise. "How

Cool slightly, when a man is aware that he looks then add the water gradually, stirring hand-Jabour and similar difficulties, course, you're joking."

One gathers the impression from

"Not at all, cane the reply. I seedy, he develops a sense of in-all the time to blend the thickening am perfectly serious when I say that feriority. He loses his self-confiden- smoothly. Bring to the thickening the spring collections that no опе

cos ce, and that is fatal for n traveller."

mer slowly 1-2 hours. Season and feels that this is the moment to makeinen could profit from the use

Then would you limit the use of cosmetics, EO for as men are con-

Isobel

drastic or revolutionary changes In

metics"

fashion. These may come later, and Well, I certainly cannot imagine a cerned, to commercial travellers?"

savvy, for instance, producing a pow- der puff or lipstick when the fore- cosmetics to be used by all men "Certainly not. I would permit man's back was turned."

whose business demands a bright and

it is quite impossible now to see just what form they inay take; but for the present at least, n sensible con servatism seems much more ap- "I have nothing like that particular healthy appearance. Sometimes, you propriate and more in harmony with situation in mind. After all, there know, even a lily can benefit from the requirements of present-day life, won coberties while working to being gilded. Think it over!"

Lelong remarks, “New use limes bring new fashion-after the as there is no necessity for a house- wife to rouge her lips when engaged

Jus!

war, we shall see," Just now there is in, say, apring-cleaning or some heavy no question of making Wor Collec- tions" in the sense of milliary cut or

or task about the house."

hand-grenades for buttons, but "war "Well, what are you really driving time clothes" are a natural develop af in your advocacy of cosmetics for inent. Monsieur Lelong translates men?" I ventured to asie,

this in true French fashion to mean For a Good Appearance "practical wearable, but lovely and,

above all. feminine-looking clothes-- "There are some calling," explained the kind of clothes, in fact that men my friend, "that demand a good ap- ilke to see women wear."

pearance. Take my own occupation as an example. A traveller must al- ways look bright and well. Thakis where cosmetics come in. When skilfully applied, they ensure that no matter how seedy one may feci, one's appearance will

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Bel. Both are useful for improving lile appearance. It woman is per- mitted to spirit away signs of physical We know you help War.Charities, deterioration or age, by cosmetics, but please do not forget that war, then I nee no reason why this un-or

no war, Hungry. Children doubted privilege should be denied MUST be fed. to men."

"Really, old fellow," I demurred.} We daily feed hundreds.

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A little vinegar added to the wnter when washing up fish plates and cutlery will remove all " traces of odour.

A clenn-bottomed kettle placed on top of п saucepan containing vegetables Instead of a lid will almost le bolling by the time the contents of the ancepan are cooked.

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