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WOMANSENSE

ACCESSORIES

TO BRIGHTEN YOUR HOME

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By ELEANOR ROSS

COMING on the market soon are now lamps, new carpets and all sorts of charming accessories for the

home. Many people are making their old furniture.do until stocks are more plentiful and prices, perhaps, a trifle more in line: New lamps, a big mirror, some new pictures, a change of siipcovers, new drapes and there

you haveTM

y a new room. new carpets that come into

the shops are snapped up at sight, for the demand is still much greater than the supply. So hold on to that old rug if you possibly can.

Now Rug

If you are out for i new rug, you'll. And some delightful new weaves as well on new versions of old favour- 1105. There are handsome Axmins- ter weaves, reasonably priced, by to-day's standards. Some rugs have да expensive hand-carved look achieved by tone-on-tona tech- niques,

The pile is really smooth but the use of different tones of one colour give a sort of raised, carved effect that is very handsome. Wilton rugs, in a higher

price range, nchlove n beautiful carved cífec! through the use of both high and low looped pile.

are so

As for the lamps, there many new and novel designs that surely it took Aladdin and his won- derful lamp to create them. There is a lot of Interest in lamps with fluorescent

bulbs.

This type light has been transformed from tho stark and utilitarian

10 smart decorator's pleces that would #ar

of

nt home in the most luxurious

Then room,

there is a highly original line of fluorescent lamps now in production. These lamps have a fluorescent tube encased in wooden busy-which-la-topped-by- utilitarian antiques, such horseshoes; blacksmith's such.

113 old tongs und

on

A Radio-Lamp Lovers of gadget-pieces should welcome a new radio-lamp. It is a Inndsomely designed nfair simple but classic lines, with a five- tube radio housed in its brass base. There is a matching lamp. but with- out the radio, for those who like their lamps in pairs.

Particularly handsom

aro the

new ceramic lamps, some of them. designed and sculpted by well-known?". artists.

One line has lamp shades

in upholstery fabrics to match chair and sofu upholstery and draperies. For a man's den or ibrary there are some particularly good looking bird lamps, with the design set on a square base of onyx or wood, The birds are hand-detailed and the shades are decorated with painted birds.

hand-

Wholesalers

POINTERS from Paris

Sigaid

med straw platter.

from THESE dresses

the Paris that the handkerchief-pointed hem- spring shows give clues to the line reveals the pleated skirt under styles that will be appearing in neath. With this dress the shops in the next six months. "shepherdess" hat, a flower-trim- is worn a will pounce

on new tricks: arched drapery over the hips, off-the-shoulder necklines, pleated skirts slotted on a belt, and back-flung jackets that fasten once at the neck, never to meet auain.

Lucien Lelong makes

the navy crepe afternoon dress (1) hitched up in on orch over either hip so

PINK LOOK

The London look. In palest pink clipped straw comes from the Gertrude Harris collection, It has pink velling.

but is trimmed with pink silk tea roses,

SPRING TRIO

Mother and two young daughters model ln New York now spring outfits; with matching plaid swing skirts. Only differences, except for size: Little sister wears shoulder straps; bla sister a belt; mother's has neither.

RED

RYDER

"THE GOLD WILL BE IN THE

EXPRESS CAR SAFE OKARCHEE

HERE'S EXPLOSIVES TO

CRACK

Avoid Those Squint Lines!

Sourter Frasca Denney

When applying cream after the nightly face washing session, give special attention to the flesh sur- rounding your peepers. Place a cream-tipped finger on the lid close to the none, sweep outward to tho temple, come back under the eye to starting poist. There is a special eye cream on the market that is ex-

A special oye cream applled nightly keepsakin around, oyes smooth. By HELEN FOLLETT nol pull her eyelids together. Though the lines be called laughing wrinkles, Next (2) is the prettiest of simple EVERY young woman should take they are just as terrible. tailored dresses this season; the

out beauty Insurance against finely checked black and white wool squint lines. dress rounded off at the shoulders, Nothing is easler, even in the end replaced by white pique which twenties. than to develop crinkles ends in tiny turned-back collar around the shutters of your soul tied with a black bow. The hat is windows. Sometimes they come be of fing while straw, banded and cause of impaired eyesight. Some looped with black petersham.

times puckering the tissues is just Another dress with new shoulder thoughtless habit. It comes upon interest is at (3), back view at (4). ne, maybe, when watching a movie, cellent for this. Fine rayon is pleated into an under makes you squint, whether you want at the races. Strong sunlight bodice, on top of which is n cuffed berthe meeting at the waist. The

pleated skirt is gathered on a the Ilds to the eyes will not suffer beauty questor realises. It should

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or

Beauty Quester

The benefits of cold water aro

to or not, becouse nature half closes many, much more than the average

ring belt,

neatly cupping the from glaring light.

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Little Linca Smiles and laughter

be used freely after soap suds has been laved away with warm water New Paris version of an already-

An occasional ice friction will not old New Look favourite

trace little only keep the flesh Arm but will Is of (5).nes at the outer corners of the eyes impart a Interest files to the back in this tiny that grow longer and spread fan-cheeks. If you don't like to feel pleasing colour to the Jacket bir skirt sult: fastened only shaped over the cheeks as the birth- shivery, warp the ice cube in several at the neck, revers of the jacket roll days pile up. It would be well for layers of gauze. back to show a white pique glet: every young lady to gaze into the over the checks, fly-away look is echoed in the skirt inirror and smile at herself. If she tip to ear lobes. with pleats at the back only.

ada that the flesh folds up, she the eyelids, frisk Patricia Lennard must learn to smile with her lips, head."

BOYS AND GIRLS MAGAZINE___

Mr. Punch Tells a True Story:

-But Knarf and Hanid Had Heard It All Before By MAX TRELL

MR. PUNCH was sitting very

quietly in his chair

near the window in the playroom. His hands were folded in his lap and his eyes were shut. He seemed to be fast asleep. But at that moment Knarf and Hanld, the shadows with the turned-around names, came into the room. They gazed at Mr Punch for a moment, then they shook him,

"Mr. Punchi It's time for you to tell us a story," Hanid said as Mr. Punch sleeplly opened one eye, then the other.

-"A story wir? Ah, yes indeed 7. at story. Let me see, now. What

story would you like to hear?"

"A true story," sald Knarf. "Something that really happened. A very true story."

Seemed Wide Awake Mr. Punch. who seemed to bu quite wide awake now at any rate, both his eyes were open-though for

“All of a sudden, a genti appeared,” sold Mr. Puncil.

"Oh!" cried Knarf. Mr. Punch quickly held up his hand. "No more interruptions,

"And when I returned home, I planted them. And what do you think happened?"

a moment or two. Then he smiles, please!" Then he went right on:- "Very well-I'll tell yqu a story thai really happened. It happened quite long ago, when I was a smail boy"

Knart and Hanid buth sat down very quietly around Mr. Panch's chale and began to listen.

"Well," he said, "one day I met

an old man who was selling old- bottles and old boxes and old papera and old clothes and lots of other old things. So I looked at all the old things he had to sell and finally I bought an old lamp. It was covered with dust and dirt. When I fot It home started to polish it. And as I was rubbing i to get it clean, all of a sudden & fairy-or rather a genii, which is almost the same thing-appeared and

said: 'Master, I am here to serve you. What is your wish?' So-"

"But Mr. Punch?" interrupted Hanid. That's the same story as Aladdin and the Lamp I read it In the Arabian Nights Taleal"

"Humph," said Mr. Punch. "It's impolite to interrupt anyone whan

c's telling you a story,"

"But

he's

"Very well, I'll tell you another, It also happened to mo when I was small boy. My mother sent ano to market with a calf. But instead of selling it, I traded it to a man for a pocketful of bean seeds...”

Grandstand Seat

́UGHS ROBBERS HAVE EVERYTHING OWN WAY SO FAR?

"I know," Hamid said, smiling. "They grew taller and taller.”

"Until they reached the nky." ndded Knart.

A Little Puzzled "That's right," said Mr. Punch

looking a little puzzled.

"And then," Honid said, smiling gain, "you climbed up the bean- stalls until you reached the palace where the giant lived?"

Do

large circles

Pass the tee over sweep from chin

it across the fore-

RIDDLES

FLORA AND FAUNA

This set of riddles

dents with plants and animals. The answera. are on this page.

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1. When is a travelling dog like

in rug?

2. What trees need neither sun-. shine nor rain?

3. What do tulips and ther- mometers have in common?

---4. In what way does a girl's: dressing table resemble a rooster?

5. What is the shorlest descrip- tion of the contents of a canta- loupe?

.

6. What fruit is found the year around, all over the world??

PANOCHA RECIPE

Panocha, a popular candy, is made this way.

2 cups of brown sugar

1 tablespoon butter

1/3 cup milk

Raisins or nuts, if desired.

Cook the ingredients together in a saucepan to the soft bull stage (238 degrees). Cool slightly, then heat, unul creamy and drop from

the tip of a spoon or turn onto a "And you found the giant and had greased slab or platter. Mark into a great fight with him!" said KnarL squares and You boll know

Mr. Punch sighed, "It's no use. cold..

this story, tua. Where did you hear it?" he asked

"We read it in the Fairy Tale Book," said Knarf

"It's the story of Jack the Giunt Killer," said flanld.

break or cut when

RIDDLE ANSWERS

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"There you' BCC," safd Mr Punch, shaking his head sadly, "(jad ava) jedina u

That's what always happens. Some-

body always finds

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book, There's no use trying to

tell them at all, even though they pro very trus stories, and they did happen to me when I was a small boy." And Mr Punch folded his hands in his lap again, shut his eyca one after the other, and quietly went back to sleep.

By Fred Harman

BUT NOT FOR LONG? HERE

COMES RED-

RYDER/

The conjurer tries all his tricksj and then he sighs and shaken his heade and pure all his things back into the secret cupboard. 'Arası little bear," he says, “thu titoe you bring me problem beyond my powers. Even my, strongest wand could not make the sun in shiot if The no want to shine," He bows

very humbly and sadly as he sees. Rupert, off by a side door. “This all strange to me." says Tigerlily, "Nobody ever make my Daddy so wad before. He will now, work hardi .to try ́again,”. :..

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