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WOMANSENSE —

CAMISOLE AND BLOUSE

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By GRACE THORNCLIFFE THERE'S A DELIGHTFUL duo, a

Happy ensemble: consisting of a

filmy peek-through blouse and s very own matching camisole. The peek-a-boo blouse is of sheer Swiss organdy and uses pla tucks, lace edging and lace Insertion very pretti- ly at the collar, down the front, and at the cuffs of the full three-

sleeves. quarter length

Matching white the

cotton camisole which is run through with ribbor

trimming tops

Too Many Table Legs

By ELIZABETH TOOMEY

NEW

YORK-Maybe

the

trouble with the family living room is the number of legs-on the furniture. Frances Lee, interior decorator who specialises in putting rare old hand-carved pieces in modern settings, advises women to count the legs on the living | room furniture if something

THE WAY YOU WALK

Neglect them,

on the

and the arches OFTEN the way you walk drop. We Rnd ourselves bearing depends on the way you our weight on two inclantic Get feel, ranging from the depress- surfaces, and Soon thero is pain ed slouch of the drizzly foggy where the email bones of the feet morning to the jaunty tret of are pressing

ground. The the bright not ton hot carly treatment for this is to strengthen

the sole muscles, summer's day.

Yet the reverse also holds good. But prevention 19 beiter than The way you walk plays a big part cure, and vigorous walking from

of the in the way you feel; so it is worth the ball

foot, with beel wille taking trouble to walk well, touching the ground well after the

Walking is the simplest form of ball, should prevent dropped- exercise. In walking our biggest arches,

groups of muscles are zet into

rhythmical movement.

Any muscle which is not used

slowly

wastes away or degenerates

into fat with depressing rapidity. THE hext vital group of muscles

Muscles, then, like all healthy use. If living tissues, Bourish on

we neglect them; sooner or later

they will let us down.

FURST group of vital muscles are

those which support the arches of the feet. When we use our feet properly they get their chance to develop as they should.

Highlight

On Ankles

T-

Canual, daytime and dressy.

seems wrong with the effect. HERE ARE SOME footnotes on

of the room.

fashion. First is a low-heeled "If there are several end tables sandal of white calf with a very and other furniture pieces, with ex-low wedge. This shoe is nice with posed legs in the living room, try sports or casual clothes. The sling- to conceal the

legs on upholstered back spectator sports pump is in pieces the decorator said.

white buck and red calt, and has a One of her specialties in the de-aldeswept treatment. For these who cornting field is colour. She be-

are tired of the classle spectator, lieves It's the key to an attractive

**** this may be u welcome variation. home, with the predominant colour in one

Finally comes the dressy shell shoe. room used as the accent

This one is made of navy doeskin colour in another. In her own apartment Miss-Lee-painted the with the thinnest of ankle sirops, a definitely dress-up shoe. But the foyer

the wall purple and repeated

are too high for the colour in the scatter pillows on the high heels iving room couch (upholstered in average woman,

ice blue) and in purple damask used

HOME HINTS

to cover the dining room chulrs.

The dining room walls repent the

ice blue shade of the living room upholstery.

Colour Not Expensive

W

HEN BOILING FISH,

suficient hot water to

allow cover,

"Colour doesn't cost any more," and a dessertspoonful of vinegar to the attractive blonde remarked as each quart of water. After the water she led the way through her own has been brought to the boil, skim colourful home. "It's just us easy it well, and allow the fish to cook to paint the kitchen turquoise and slowly until it leaves the bones shocking pink as to paint it a dull black and white." Tha

purple quite casty. paint for her foyer walls costs no The average tea-cup holds about more than the original tan they a quarter of a pound of four and were first painted. She advises the breakfast-cup half a pound. thinking of

colours that are be- ns to the

coming house.

to you as well

oven.

•

are the great masses at the in-

front and back of the thighs, cluding the buttock muscles. These are mainly responsible for keeping the body in the upright position and for strengthening the knee and hip joints; they also provide the main motive force for walking.

To get these muscica going as they should, walk from the hips. Walking from the knee is bod Job mechanically; it makes these

great muscle groups work at serious disadvantage.

Emcient walking demands, keep- Ing the hend up and the chin In.

In this position the blood flows | most easily Into the chest, and in consequence the heart and lungs can function properly.

Chest movements automatically Increase, and the breathing muscles are exercised.

NE other group

ONE

Subtle Effect in Make-Up

Courtesy Colombia Pictures,

Constant creaming is important to beauty, so Movie Biar Marguerite

· Chapman makes it part of her nightly routine.

By HELEN FOLLETT

under

a girl will remember that the need darkening Not the purpose of make-up is to give lashes; there is often a little meis-- an illusion of natural "loveliness, it ture there and one may have a por. is likely she will stay her hand, em- trait that is downright untidy, of muscles can ploy beauty alds with discernment play a part-the muscles of the and restraint. For the merry eve- stomach wall. If these

bit more welling party she can be Bre held in, in vigorous walking the generous with the counterfeit blush. abdominal contents are massaged But out in the broad daylight, it is and stimulated, with beneft to better to be a bit subtle. digestion and the disposal of waste from the system.

Take the longest natural stride you can manage with comfort.

Finally, let the primary purpose of walking be pleasure, Walk be cause you want, to. And walk well, Your health will be beneЛted.

Walking with head up and chin in helps to keep the heart and

lungs functioning well,

Correct walking will increase suppleness of hips and will strengthen the knee joints.

Putting the ball of the foot down Arst, then the heel, should pre- vent dropped archies.

When buying powder, get one of light consistency; it produces a bete, ter effect in warm weather than the product that has an olly base.

A good looks practice that will bring natural colouring to the cheeks Without complexion artifice n

is the cold water spray. A famous woman is likely to feel and look old movie star keeps a bath spray fast- fashioned. There should be just ened to the faucet of the bath tub. enough re-touching done and the

She gives her face a cold spray colours must be right-to make the several times a day, always before- countenance a bit more vivid. Of she is about to use synthetle aids. course, there are always the ex- tremists who don't know when to The neck and chest are included. stop playing with the rouge pad. Afterwards there is a friction with who widen the lips with the rosy her hands wrapped in a towel, slap- stick, Iny on eye shadows with a ping upward. A light foundation heavy hand. The more they do, cosmolle is applied, rubbed in unthi the WOYED they look. An ap- it disappears, after which our love- pearance of weariness appears, the ly one plays with the make up box. face looks brittle.

Cold water not only brings good Touch the eyelashes and eye colouring, but it keeps fun all the brows lightly with mascara if they facial tissues and underlying Abres.

BOYS AND GIRLS, MAGAZINE.

How Many Stars Are There?

-Punch Thought He Could Find Out -

By MAX TRELL

"DP

you ever count the stars, Mr Hanid, the Punch?" asked shadow-giri with the turned-about

name.

For a moment or two Mr Punch, who was standing at the playroom window, didn't answer. It was eve ning. The stars were blinking and winking down from the sky like fire- Oles. It was secing all these stars that made Hand ask the question about counting them. At length Mr Punch turned around.

"Yes, my dear, I once counted the stars."

"Oh! How many are they?"

Mr Punch sighed and shook his head. I never found out. I almost did, though," he added.

"What happened, Mr Punch?”

Long Ago

Punch started to count the stars.

old chap, the only thing to do is to get everyone else to help you count them. If everyone else just counts one of the stora each, there'll be no trouble at all. No one will get mixed up. Because, how can you get mixed up if you just count one stor?"

Wonderful Idea

"My, that was a wonderful ideal"

"Sit down, my dear, and I'll tell CAKES WILL NOT BURN at the Punch did the same. Then, after you." So Hanld sat down, and Mr The dark walls favoured by Miss top if covered with

a plece of Lee are Ideal to show off handsome grease-proof paper, which

lighting his pipe, he began. "It was should furniture or flne paintings. She used the walls as a background for be removed about half an hour be-100 ng ako. I was standing out Hanid exclaimed. "Did everyone do

side my little house. looking up it?" -fore the cake is taken from the at the stars and wondering just

as you are, how many of them there could be. So I started to count them. I counted and counted. and counted. But the counted, the more of them there were. Then I stopped. I said 'to myself: Punch, that Jan'l the way. to it. You must find a different way to count the stars,"

her rare hand carvings. Over the fireplace hanga an antique mirror In an Italian hand-carved gold leaf frame that dates back to the 17th century.

was

a

vimilar frome Another. mounted on legs and turned into a novel coffee table. St another idea to add ancient touches to modern setting are the handwooden gates Miss Lee hung in the arch- way between the living and dining rooms.

IT IS A GOOD IDEA to keep a special box in which to collect all burnt-out matches. Packed lightly in long twists of newspaper, these make excellent pre-lighters.

more

i

"A different way?" Hanld said in

A SANDPAPER SUBSTITUTE a puzzled voice. "What kind of a that has special merit for removing different way?" rust from tools without scratching is

Yes indeed! Everyone counted one star." And Mr Punch, instead of smiling, alghed.

"What was the matter, Mr

Punch?" -

"Everyone counted ono stor but it did no good. They all count- ed the same star. And that," he said, was the last time I tried to find out

are. stars there how many

But "There's no need to be afraid of

this I do know. There are millions using modern furniture If a women made from crushed coke. The coke "I didn't think of it at once," said and millions of them. one for has a few rare antique pieces she is crushed to the required degree of Mr Punch. "It took quite a while, everyone in the world. And maybe. a bit important to know wants to

commented. Anencas, and aifted through a plece But then I thought of the different it isn't keep," "With the exception of the uphol of cloth on to a piece of coarse paper way to count the stars. You see, if how many of them there are, but stered furniture almost every plece | which has been canted with glue. you try to count all the stars your only to know that they wink and of furniture in my living room | After the glue has dried the paper la self, you're bound to get mixed up. blink down at dates back two or three centurias.”

So I said to myself again: Punch, look up at them."

RED RYDER

rendy..

THERE'S SKOONINY JUST THE (OUTSIDE, JESSI

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Deepest Sympathy

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THEY MAY HAVE THE MONEY THEY SWINDLED FROM. THOSE MINERS AND THEY WOULDAM LEAVE WITHOUT ITS

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LITTLE LION

OF NEW

MEXICO

By LEE PRIESTLEY

THEY called him "El Leonetto,"

the Little Lion, ond he stood alone against an attack of yelling renegade Indians in New Mexico. He was a short man and when no lined up the sights on his muzzic loader it seemed that the gun was longer than he.

When the sights covered an in- dinn chief who was jumping his horse over the rampart. of dend men, Little Lion squeezed the trig- Ker. The redskin Blid with glazing eyes to dle at the feet of the Little- Lion of New Mexico.

The loss of their chief daunted were the warriors, although they hundreds 10 his onc. As dusk deepened in the mountains they withdrew, and Don Manuel Chavez, for that was the real name of the Little Lion, took stock of the situa-, tion.

Altacked

02 at dawn, he had bullets for his glant gun. Now two bulleis remained. Small man that he was, he climbed with dif fculty over the ring of dead and noted that each bullet had account- ed for either a renegade or his mount. Then he bowed his head sorrowfully over the bodies of 14. comrades, bristling with arrows,

(To be Continued Tomorrow)

Rupert & Ting-Ling-

Rupert is delighted to have a bamboo pipe like the one Ting-Ling wind. Before handing it over the old mandarin playa upori it a strange tune, and a few moments later a great dragon, bigger than the other. awings through the air and Lands beside them Ting-Ling stands beside the huge creature and chatters 'cheerfully to it in Chinese. Seeing him so completely free from, fear. Rupert screws up his courage, walka straight up to the dragon, and climbs on to its back,

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