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This crisp-looking frock of black silk taffela twill with a pin dot of white has ruffles of while bincho lace at the neckline, and edging the cornucopia pockets. The tall crowned peach basket hat is a lawny yellow straw braid with ribbon striped in pink, black and white,

Be Sure Ruffles Flatter You

By ELEANOR GUNN

NEW YORK-The type of dress that has its neckline softened

by a frill or ruffle made more pronounced by binding or out- lining with braid or some such trimming depends on one's pre- ferences. Some women are flattered by frills and others "frum- pified" by them, just as some are unable to wear fapels and others

Jimmensely improved by them.

"Perk up with polka and pin dots," your is another style hint. "Win stripes," says another, for both "dois and dashes spell chic. Stripes can- not be depended on to follow a given direction. In fact, they may go one way for the blouse and another for skirt. The main point is that stripes very good in practically material and for practically any pur- pose,

·Pigment print-lawn-in a “Flowers. of Brazil pattern is used for a gored skirted frock giving a cool, crisp touch with embroidered organdio revers and cuffs,

SHORT

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When you buy a new saucepan, be sure you get one with a "ip" This is much more convenient for youring liquids than a pan with a perfectly round edge,

are

any

As summer approaches we can ex- pect cotton dresses and sheer silks to be worn, Don't be surprised if; for the sake of comfort, they are cut away from the throat line. Whether

they will be as of yesterday, high to the base of the throat and childishly collared or cut round, square or V- apect is also a matter of preference. It appears, however, that the neck- line will have ruffies, if that's your style.

Dance Frocks Are Simple

10 on

The Saturday night-dance-frock-in- format and designed for comfort, is long, of course, but that's about the

mly concession that it makes of them are foriqality. Many shirtwaist lines, top contrasting with skirt, and others are all of a piece but simple in silhouette with the con- ventional fitted bodice and circular The wide girdle, corselette or

skirt. gypsy girdle are as popular as ever. If one's waist measure is not opposed to the idea, the girdle should be gay and contrast to the dress.

Did you know that eggs. which are first wet with cold water, are to crack when bolling? not so apt As soon as grease is spilled on at wooden floor, pour"cold water over!- H. This, so that the grease will hard- en before it soaks into the wood. It can then be scraped off.

The caslest things to serve to „rellove, the monotony_of_a_plalu. meal are pickles, sweet or sout, Tornislied copper and brass or naments will acquire a brilliant pollsh if rubbed vigorously with strong Hauld ammonta applied or a plece of flannel. Polish dry with a soft cloth.

Ice trays will not freeze and allok to the tray compartament if the bottoms are dried after the trays liave been filled with water,

The girl who wants a ready-for- frocks anything type of week-end can't do better than to choose either a plain chiffon, or simple pastei lace, Such dresses, built up to the reckline, are worn over slips that definitely are not.

one

Wide Skirt a Leader

Wednesday,

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June 12, 1940.

Lingerie Accents Easy To Make STOLEN FROM THE

Collar And Cuff

Set Is Smart

THERE'S nothing quite so discon-

fun

certing as the sudden approach of summer that finds you completely un- prepared for the quick change. In such a crisis, your best friend is your sewing machine. An hour or two of busy will add new zest and new. changes to your unadorned dress:s and the cost will be only a few cents. There is no better tonie really, than the crisp white or brilliantly coloured accent of collar and cuffs. And with modern sewing attachments, these are so easy to make even u beginner con, do a professional-looking_job.

the mos

most fraglie and feminine fabrics for collar and cuft sets in printa: voile. Choose a multi- coloured floral print on n white

One of

ground. One half yard of this 36- inch material will be ample. The joy and surprize of making the casual.

kerchief type of collar

with and cuffs Lie ends is that you need make no paper pattern; it is equally antenable to high or low necklines, and only one snap-fastening each is necessary for neckline and sleeves to anchor it to your dress.

You can sew this collar and cuff set at home.

in the neckline

high, equal size and cut apart. Turn in This

Fold dress. If the way it is done: fabric in

half. Cul apart so that simply tie the kerchief ends a litle the edges as you did the collar. Use you will have two 18-inch squares. tighter, letting them fall casually in a the foot hemmer for hemming the One square is used for the collar, studied way. Sew one part of the edges. Then when this has been Using the foot hammer attachment, snapfastener to the dress neckline al completed, fold each piece once again turn in a V-inch hem, making a the back; the other half is sewed to into half-size double triangles, and smooth, professional Brish. Your the centre-top of the 'kerchief collar, attach to sleeves with snap-fastener as directed above, leaving tle-ends collar is now finished, except for fold- on the folded side.

ing once more into a double triangle For the cuffs, fold the remaining free to adjust according to sleeve and adjusting to the neckline of your 18-inch square into two triangles of width.

High style talloring goes into this year's play cloilies. This en- semble is in a new silk and acet. ate erepe. The on-piece shorts- and-shirt play sult Is toast colour -the separate skirt is naturai with a light tan leather belt.

BEAUTY TIPS

Lack Of Vitamins Causes Brittle Nails

By CLAUD NORTH CHRISMAN, M. D. FINGERNAILS can be beauteous or unsightly. I heard so much about dirty fingernails when I was a boy, that cleaning them became almost as much of a nightmare as washing behind my ears. So many things can happen to a fingernail to mar its looks that I often wonder why we see so many beautiful ones.

The Ongernail is much like a hair his case indicates that her trouble is for it is a horny growth that receives not local but systemic. Her skin its nourishment from the nail-1001-must be dry, because it is the thick the double fold of skin at, the base skins that are olly and perspire freely. of the nail. The nall-bed, or matrix, Dry skin is usually due to improper to which the mall is adherent out to nourishment. There may be a lack of fat and ails in the diet, but pro- the end keeps it firm and healthy.

Many things can happen to in-bably the condition is due to lack of

certain vitamins. tecfere with the normal growth of

the nail and An insufficient amount of vitamins the ball. Any jury ton around Hs A, B, and D will cause drying of the its bed, edges will cause: turbance in skin, nails and hair. Particularly is growth. Anything that gets under this true of vitamin A. A normal diet the fingernail and separates it from should produce a sufficient supply of its base will injure that part of the these vitamins, but they may not be nail.

absorbed or are destroyed in cooking.

Bacteria Enter

Needed

Vitamins

Vitamin A does not remain stored In cleaning the nall, any slip of a

of even sharp instrument

undue in the system very long and a daily violence in pushing back the skin supply is needed. It is found to many from

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6.10 the edges may permit the foods, such as spinach, carrots, toma- entrance of bacteria and an unsightly toes, peus, lettuce, apricots, butter, beef liver and Cream, eggs, spot on, the nail.

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8.40 Victor Silvester and Itis Ball- room Orchestra,

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is not permanently injured, the spot properly, it may be necessary to lake will push out to the end as the nail vitamin A in concentrated form, like grows and can be removed. The nall cod liver oil, halibut liver oil, as well Brows from the root and not at the ng tuna and salmon liver oil. end.

Lately shark liver oil appeared on. the Ringworm, abscesses, hangnails

market. It contains a large

vitamin A and well as external hurt can injure the amount of

obtained in root or nall-bed and interfere with vitamin D. It can be

One in liquid form. clipsules or normal growth.

A reader writes that her fingernails capsule before meals is sumclent.

brittle nails. chuse Other things are critically thin and brittle and split at the ends. They are not only Excesive use of soap and water, the

9.00 A Varicly Programme. The unsightly, but their condition has use of nail polishes and glazes, and

Derby Descriptive-Part 1-On the become a real affliction. She says their removal, with such solvents as

Road, Part 2-On the Course, The on The Derby. the natural oli she is normally active and in good acetone take away

Singing. Pearly Kings; Chirup, The health, working every day.

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9.15 London Relay News Sum- her skin thin and her hair exceed cause trouble.

Focal infection, such as diseased ingly fine and of a delicate type. She

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The homemaker who wants to go on considers herself generally tough teeth and tonsils, is a frequent cause. a beauty spree and hasn't time or physically but the skin, nails and hair The repeated application of olive oll Very Directoire are some of the money to shop for new cosmetics

to the root of the nail supplies oil. slim ond slashed evealng dresses might try these beauty tricks. There not tough.

There may be many causes for Soak the finger tips each night, in an fashioned of striped silk, the vertical ingredients come from your pantry brittle nails, but the combination in ointment of rose water and glycerine. stripes accenting-the-skirt's slimness helis-a-bleach-und astringent. Word from Paris is that the slim cleanse your face thoroughly, then evening dress was the big news of apply warmed honey. Leave on for the mid-season openings, which were twenty minutes then rinse off with held more or less on schedule. Be hot water. Pal lemon juice over this as it may, the wide slim one face and neck and allow to dry for being the exception-and a striking ten minutes. Rinse, dry and use softening cretini. This treatment Waistlines, as usual, refusing to leaves the skin, beautifully clear and stay statle, seem to be on the decline soft. Or, ma

make a paste from a yeast but not markedly go.Creed drops the cake and a tablespoon milk. Spread waistline of his conts and suits and over face and reek ond allow to dry scores with a very smart black and for half an hour. Rinse with warm white striped satin blouse worn with water and apply cream for ten a black sult, Panther and other flat minutes. Remove and put on make- furs are used in preference to the up. fox and kindred long-haired furs.

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the Impression, digesting the cables, which are our dally fare at the moment of writing, that the changes are subtle rather than radical..

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Cleaning Curtains

The best way to clean washable etrtains is to release surface dust first by shaking or by using a vacuum cleaner. Then wash in warm sudsy water and rinse in several waters. Curtains that are to be stored, should WHILE cues are plentiful this not be starched or ironed, but folded makes an excellent mentless dinner. Melt two ounces of dripping or mar-up and put away after drying. starine in a stewpan and fry in it for about ten minutes two young carrols and three small potatoos, thinly sliced.

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Rome, June 11.

a shallot, or small onion, finely The Unlled Sintes Embassy offici minced, salt and pepper to taste, and ally took over the interests of the a pinch of mixed berbs. Simmer all British and French Embassies, shortly together gently for about half an hour, after midnight.

then pour into a shallow ple-dish,

Beat two egg yolks and atir in two Members of the American Embassy Cake that is baked in a glass stry-ounces of breadcrumbs seasoned with staff went to the British and French

Whites

Ing dish may be stored in the me pepper and salt. Whip up the egg Embassies, sealed the archives, and dish and will remain fresh longer:

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