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WOMANSENSE

Spring Triumph One Reason Why You Need

BEA

By ALICE ALDEN

An Annual Health Test

By HERMAN N. BUNDESEN, M.D. ONE of the many reasons for which speeds up the elimination why each of us should of salts through the lddney would tend to cause the stone to grow rap- have an annual health audit is idly. These factors include blocking to be sure that the great filter of the flow of the urine, prolonged rest in bed and the drinking of too ing plant in the body-the to water, infections of any kind kidneys-is in good working or in the kidneys, the taking of insum- der. One of the disorders of clent fluids, and excessivo sweating. the kidney is brought about when atones form in them.

Fortunately, in recent years. a great deal has been learned about kidney stones which may be made up of different types of chemicals.

For example, some contala cal cium oxalate. These are the most common stones found in persons in the United States. They may also contain calcium phosphate, uric acid, and cystine, which is an amino acid. Most stones are made up of a mixture of these various substances,

Oxalate stones are small, dark, rough, and hard; calcium phosphate stones smoll, white, soft, and chalky; uric neld stones small and usually quite yellow in colour, and cystino stones have a waxy appear. ance.

Other factors inny bo related to the excretion of large amounts of lime salts through the fldneyn, For ot the example, a disturbanço glands in the neck, known as the parathyroid glands, may be a fac- for. Large doses of vitamin D will cause a tempomry Increase In the amount of calcium in the urine. Then, too, a marked deficiency of vitamin A may be responsible.

Fever And Chills

The symptoms of kidney stones consist of pain, often with fever and chills. The diagnosis, as a rule, is not difficult. Often, blood la found in the urine. Many of the be reen in the X-ray stones can plate.

In treating the condition, If the pain is revere, and it usually 18, some oplate is often necessary. It is important, if there is infection present. that such preparations as penicillin or the sulfonamide drugs be given.

Sometimes a stono can 'be re-

of n tube with n

When You Shop for Perfume

Courtesy Houbigant, ine Perfume made from the blend of a few flowers is a good basic scent for your perfume "wardrobe." By HELEN FOLLETT

DERFUMES always have and al-

course of time your entire ward- robe will be dellalously fragrant.

Cause Unknown

ways will exercise a potent in Exactly why kkiney stones form

fluence. We never pause to inquire is not defnitely known is yet, al-

From the time that Eve enjoyed though many scientists are working

why we prefer this, that or some other scent, or why some that are

the odours of the green growths in on this

problem. However, there

moved through the cystoscope, pleasing to

the Garden of Eden, pertumes have are some who believe that they are which consists

ps are repellent to

been beloved In the magnificent all rather mysterious. others. It formed around a small bit of male light. The Instrument is passed inte rial. This may come from a deposit the bladder and

some acquaintances a cities of Nineveh and Babylon, the then another In-Also, liko morked, supple of calcium or lime salts in the kid- QEAUTIFULLY

catheter is perfume may not always seem the perfumes employed would stagger furs, light in colour and bril-ney from the blood. Thus, any fac-strument, called the upward into passed

the ureter same; the longer we have it with belief. The Egyptians enjoyed them Ilantly styled, have had a big win-

which passes from the kidneys in us, the less we like it. It dura't during the fourth dynasty, using them in their baths, frictioning wear well. ter and look forward to a success-

to the bladder. If the stone enn-

floretted odours into their body sur ful spring with a good resort and

not be removed in this way, opera fumes put up their delicious offer-

Fortunately, the makers of per- Inces. There's a travel season in between. world of beauty, charm and wear- coatce, ability packed into this fur designed

by Dein-Bacher of the Waldorf. Fashioned coloured Indian brondtall exquisite- ly marked, it has an overlapping

of champagne

monk's drape, small standing collar

and gathered cuff.

tion is necessary, "THINKING

.

per-

ings in vials and bottles of various During the Middle AgcE, To prevent recurrence the patient sizes. Buy a small one if you are fumes were so costly that their use should drink plenty of fluids and changing from your long-time fa- was mited to the court of nobles.

CLOCK” TO BE the diet should be low in the sub-vourite. Be sure that it is delicate it was the Crusaders who brought

SEEN AT BIF

Re-arranging A in clock" will

Your

Bedroom

By ELEANOR ROSS

URING the last decade or so,

The average bedroom has undergone its transformation and emerged from a stereotyped room into one of individuality and charm. We don't mean the snooty decora tor jobs

the beautiful hotel suites, we mean the ordinary family bedroom. No longer is it a room

or

stances

from which the removed and flower-like. And, while you are perfumes into general use. Return- stone

formed, for example, about it, get sachets of the same

the East, they brought wise in trom oxalates. Any blocking of the flow scent. They will form back-

quantities of precious our and of urine should be corrected, by ground for the more expensive in from that day to this, sweet scents murgery if necessary, and infections vestment. Tuck them in your hat have been a part of every woman's should be overcome by proper and glove boxes, put them between beautifyiry, equipment-if she can

your handkerchiefs and scarves. In afford thein. treatment.

HOW TO DEAL WITH WINTER

Advice by doctors of The Practi- tioner:

Let's Eat

BY

IDA BAILEY ALLEN

Piping Hot Yeast Rolls

PHE incomparable aroma of baking Brush the sides with melted butter yeast brend drew me into the or margarine. Place 3 balls together test kitchen. The Chef was just tak- in an olled muffin pan to form a ing a big pan of delectable looking "cloverleaf," Let rise until doubled reils from the oven.

nad bake.

N electrically operated hink

be among the many new models to be seen at the British Industries Fair, which opens simultaneously in London (Earls Court and Olympia) and Birmingham (Castle Bromwich) on May 2. This electric clock, is sold under the trade name, The Radio Preset Clock. It will be found in the horological section of the exhibition of jewellery, clocks and

LEG circullion disorders caused watches, cutlery and silverware

by the modern habit of girls go- ing out without slockings in cold located on the ground floor of the National Hall at Olympla in Lon-weather, are increasing don.

FINGERS can be freed from chil- for by The Radio Preset Clock will pet blains

exercises. And chilblains on the that consists of the regulation bed- form a number of funellons design- room suite with its hureau, dressered not only to save thought and

FEET skipping or other vigorous "Come and see my collection of Finger Rolls: Divide the dough and vanity, a most unpretty rooin, trouble for human beings, but also

hot rolls. Won't you sit down. Mad- into 24 portions. Work smoothly to be hidden behind

to avoid any waste of electric cut-exercises are effective,

ame," he urged. In a jiffy he broke with the fingers on a slightly floured rent in the home. It will switch on zloors.

SOFT WATER will do much to open a steaming hot poppy seed board, then roll with the palm of The frend,

an electric blanket before one goes for some Umc, bas bem towards smaller bedrooms, to bed and automatically switch it prevent skin ailments, and

off when the bed is warmed. For SKIMMED MILK, "Too trend that began some years before This is the main reason

who wish to choose scoffed at the war.

those

and sometimes thrown persons special-radio-programmes. In ad-away-by-the-farmer-as-a-poor-food, why the ugly standardised bedroom suite

discard. has gone into the

the clock will switch on the has a protective value as great as vance, endin radio room is no large, there

predetermined

hed milk without the cream removed." programme. to be Hexibility in furnishing.

At night the clock will also

off switch

hall and Large pieces are cumbersome, room seems top-heavy with furni nursery lights. Should you fall ture. So in came the handsome asleep and forget to turn off the

Shoes should be well aired when headboard bed, in came charming reading lamp by your bedside the

clock will switch it off for you, An- taken off. Don't, as soon as you re- sectional pieces to be arranged and

move them front your feet, pul trees Atted according to the room dimen- other useful clock which will be

exhibited at the Fair is an electric in them and stow them in a shoe stons.

alarm clock that will automatical-bag in the closet. By all means pul thern to conserve their re-set the alarm for each day trees in

shape but leave them out until they have been aired.

Ditc

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Headboard Bed

closed

The headboard bed or, that clever trick, a box-spring on legs, shoved Dainst a false hentboard cut from plywood and covered to Lone or contrast with spread or drapes,. Is star of today's bedroom decor, the and it is worthy of all the hung- some variations obtainable in every price range. For the decorative possibilities of the headboard bed

unlimited, and ranje from

are

luxury fabrics, such as silk velvets or the leather, through to chiniz and linen.

Fabrics play a colourful role in the new type bedroom, too. Bed- spreads with floor-length ruffled or tailored

flounces, dresshut

table skirts and draperies of the same material, give an effect of continuity und, cyc

necessary to make

a room rennt and inviting.

Because headboard beds are not part of a suite or net, it

it in possible to select whatever pieces of bed- necessary, froni

room

furniture

open stock to exactly fitting the requirements of the occupants of the room. If the budget is limited, the beds, drawer chests and floor covering can be purchased

first.

That way, through the years, it is possible to create a really handsome room without cripplag the budget. Furniture is acquired firat fits the the

'needs and requirements ni

right time,

Sectional Picces

For storage, there are handsome sectional pieces that may be re- arranged or increased ntcording to requirements, Matching drawer chesis placed side by aldo and top- ped with a big mirror offer plenty of storage space in a handsome man- ner. A small desk nuda much to a room and offers a nice spot for quiet letter-writing or going over accounts.

Accessories should be well chosen and always hurmonious. A alce easy. chair in fine, but if space doesn't permit, how about a pretty title silpper chair? A chaise longue of- ferd n nico touch of luxury, but here, ngain, space limitations often Intervene, and suggest a small easy. chair and matching footstool.

for

with week-ends.

A

necessary

"cut-out"

for

BEEF, OFF THE HOOF

Two visitors view the prize-winning exhibit at the 33rd National Hotel Exposilon in New York City, Winning Arst prize for originally, this 'display' shown a whole calf cut into various sections and prepared for cooking. Valery Girard, head butcher of the Hotel New Yorker, won the award, given by the Salon of Culinary Arts.

roll and quickly buttered it.

ofien

the hand into 3" lengths. Make the end

Place, not quite touching,

on the baking pan. Let rise untik

"But Chef, it's only ten-thirty." of each roll taper sightly while

roiling. weakly protested.

We will-enli-this-just-a-snock-n-doubled-and-bale. the interests of scientific research. Besides, Madame, it is your profes sional duty to taste these products and give me your opinion," he add ed, pouring out a cup of steaming coffee and placing it beside the roll

Other Rolls

Cornstarch Glaze: Molten 1 top- cornstarch with 2 tsp. cold water. Pour in 1/3 c. bolling water, and stir and cook 1 min.

In the following menu, hot rolls are served with a conserve for des- sert.

Dinner

Apple Juice

"When did you start these yeast rolls?" I inquired, trying to delay the downfall of my reducing diet. Boiled California Ham and Cabbage Meantime the Chef had already Flaky Potatoes

added a pocket-book roll, a clover- leaf roll, a finger roll and a crescent. What could I do? I decided merely to taste each.

"I used the new hot roll mix," said the Chef. "It is very easy; another one of your wonderful American hurry-ups I made up two packages

Egg Cream 'Gravy Carrot and Pans

Celery Hot Rolls Coffee or Tea Milk (Children)

All Measurements Are Level Recipes Serve Four Boiled Ham Dinner

of the hot roll mix about two hours fornía hum

ugo. Each package will make one

Select a 5 or 6 lb. plenic or Call- Scrub all over. Place

Put the ham back into

dozen-good-sized rolls--more small kettle; cover with cold water. enes. You see. Madame, I not only bring to boiling point and discard made the plain rolls, but I baked the water. several different shares as well as the kettle the poppy seed rolls."

with

again. This time cover boiling waler. Add 1 tsp.

mixed pickle spice; cover and sim

and lec

"I think it would be a good plan nr 1 hrs. Then put in 6 peeled. to give our readers directions for medium-sized white polatoen

them bolt 25 min. On top place thick making and shaping these quick

'crisp white

mix rolls. It is easy to make them slices of well-washed for lunch or diluner and they're-such green cabbage. Cover again and irenti They would also be good to ball 20 min. longer. To serve, first skin the ham: cut it in slices, place serve for dessert with a conservé,"

Chef had down the centre of a large platter From the samples the baked, we selected some of the most surround with the potatoes and see- popular and wrote out the directions tions of cabbage: dust the potatoes for this column..

with a little paprika and the enbbage. with freshly ground black pepper. Pass, egg cream gravy, delicious-not; only with the vegetables but with the

Hot Rolls

Use a good yeast roll mix; care- ham. fully read all the directions on the Ham Dinner Pressured-Style: package, then make up the dough; Cover, the ham with cold water.; Shape in any of the following ways Sook at Toast 2 hrs. Bring slowly to and bake on directed on the package boiling point and discard the water. Pocket Book Rolls: Divide the Place the rack in the cooker. Pour dough into 12 portions, Roll out in 2 c. hot water or elder and put ench with a rolling pin into a flat in the ham. Close the cooker; bring oblong shape. Brush with melted to 15 lb. pressure and shortening and fold over "pocket m

book shape. Let rise until doubled min to the pound. 10 min. before it will be done, reduce the pressure to zoro; open the cooker; put, in me- Crescents: Roll out the complete dium-sized peeled white potatoes, amount of dough thin into oblong and top with thick slices well wash- piece. Cut into 12 triangle shapen. ed, crisp white or green cabbage.. Brush over with melted butter or Again bring to 16 lb. pressure margarine; then beginning with the process 10 min. longer. Finich os side end, roll up the dough and draw described in the precedingt recipe. the ends around in a form of a

when placing on horgo-shoo

bak- Ing pan, Keep half an inch apart.

For egg cream gravy, first make Let riso until doubled and bake.

For each of 1 c. medium-thick white muce, us- Cloverleat Rolls: these, three very small portions of ing whole milk. Add 1 tbsp. minced dough

and are required, cuch large parsey

1 fine-chopped hard. enough to form a marble-sized ball, cooled egg.

tha

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