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WOMANSENSE

Autumn Scallops

By GRACE THRONCLIFFE

Fath's New Silhouette

-The

PARIS.

"Jaillissante"

"Garconne" is the name of tulle godets inset at the slurs, combinations

het

TIGHT sheaths animated one of several youthful dresses There are many

by godets is the for- with white starched Eton collar of fabric like this, including and a boyish look. These dresses dry-bandling woollens with faille mula for Jacques Fath's are mostly in binck woollen. or or organza, collection. Accordion plented The white collar is even used on Thero are quantities bluck. Include taupe and godets are inset directly at a striped velvet shirtwaist top Colours the back like A ship's with a sunray pleated streel- beaver tones, gray and Parina

length black met skirt.

Violet, rudder or are placed one at

This is the These while collars are one

Arst house each side. Circular godets of many spring-like touches, as emphasise pearl Jewellery, show- are similarly Inset by rows three-quarter sleeves on costs ing thick necklaces

by clusters nt and matching

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of many

of buttons as if buttoned and dresses, fitted waist-length strands caught into the Blit in the tight Jackets and waist-length jackets coloured stones

of fur, as well as the large use dangling earrings. There are

skirt.

many, stranded

Fath christens bla silhouette of worsted sulting for tallared also

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fallored bracelets. dresses.

flat "Jaillissante?" which means gush bows of meire or striped taffeta ing Ilke a fountain. He uses ribbon also look spring-like, the term to describe these these shout 8 inches long, made godets and also a deep plented of 3-inch ribbon placed at the Neunce that wanders across the

front of one shoulder, usually

Phosphorescent Designs

pearl

top of the skirt at back from to catch one end of pieces of AS the momentum of openings }

front and down the sides, billowing as the wearer moves like foamy ripples. Collars spurt upwards in points.

Blouxod: Backs Otherwise_the_silhouette re- mains typically Fath, moulding, belted, with tightly

sloping shoulders and in midcalf or shorter lengths. There are some bloused backs.

DON'T TREAT

well-rounded TEEN-AGER AS

A CHILD

By G. C. MYERS, Ph.D.

at

got under way, young houses

fabric that cross high at throat, as well as older houses showed replacing the collar.

un-

themselves undaunted by strike dimculties and contributed

of from 50 to 100

ringing out at the hips. Verywhere, marking dingonal circular

Street Length for Evening

pre-

by

on

Buy Perfume That Suits You

Couriers MOM

Take time to select a new pertame, advises Movie Star Karen Bopti, and buy one that suits your personality. A good idea is to get a small bottle Bret

Unpressed Picats Besides

collections godels, wide pressed pleats give full look to models each. the back of dresses and beltel One Paris fashion house head- Jackets, caught under the belt. lines

dresses with evening

desligths This treatment is seen even in phosphorescent the long beaver coat.

specially treated satin and net. Sull other sheath dresses, Phosphorescent and plain sequin both for daytime and in long embroideries are lavishly used evening silhoueties, are animated to trim bodices of evening and by big handkerchief points late afternoon models,

By HELEN FOLLETT The trim, small gure is er

Is affected THE ENSEMBLE

panels,DELIEVE . or sneer and be vous system.

by Rows of tailored buttons are phasised here LOCA

godets, and apron scornful. but elegant wny certain of a warm

It is a fact scents sometimes, there may be place

Sults for daytime are that a woman's favourite In the

reams and side-back fastenings, effects.

per- a sensation of nausen. Evidently wardrobe. The dress and cont

besides attaching godets.

worn with fame gives her a terrific uplift, sympathetic bond between the form-hugging and twosome of spring. gives way

dos lens bells.

Dressy sults tickles her nostrils and soothes nerver and the nose. to the suit cont for autumn,

slate blucher soul. If she sneaks money

may love The exotic lady Street length evening dresses are often in dark Stallops are the motif of this

sills, Madame out of the household budget, exotis perfumes, heavy," pun emphasised. D5 strapless either wool or ensemble. They appear on both

and embroiders feeds the family on cheap cuts gent ones, and she can get away the jacket salt and coat. Scallops

sheaths entirely pailletted with Carven trims

The naive young edge the front of both the AS a rule, parents who are dying godets of net strapless them from, the waistband to and tinned goods for a few days, with them.

with eintroidered- tops with sunray the pockets

tet or tiny she is justified. There is some lady should select one that and successful small, youthful collars, with the happy

Long evening beads.

thing about some detail for pockets. The stuiting their child in his earlier pleated skirts,

a floretted odour her character-ly Badger is much used to trim that with the

Her forget makes

that, gardenia, juomine, Lady coat is double breasted and

years also gently

arc happy and dresses are slender

model with

of her day

resurrected fashions of having resurs this same point and godet treatments coals as a roomy nitted with a half-belt in bacli. soccessful in relation

must The sult follows the

child during his adolescence. Yet as the daytime dresses, Wedding badger collar and detached stole cook, wash dishes, make beds, the past has also brought back

do a hundred other chores, She to popularity some and has a slim straight skirt.

a few parents who are are town of white satin has pink panels at the front. The coat is of a heavier brown they were eminently successful

feels rich and elegant when she fashioned favourites, flac, rose

But the

nosi She dreams of nid and wears it. diagonal wool than that used for

fashioned gardens, moonlight popular items are blends or You do not recogalse gets foolishly Fenti- bouquets. cutal.

definite flower odour, but any

the sanic Should It happen

that you you like them just

Don't overtook sachels. They jare about to purchase and stalk

new perfume, get a small are economical, they fill the bill. ugh of them placed itt Perfume chemists

Have enough are offering them, small enough to your handkerchief, tuck in your purse, taking up at boxes and, in course of time. no room at all. The human your entire wardrobe will be nose is fussy: doesn't know at impregnated with them.

You'll find 'tome cute tricky Best Just what it will accrpl.

dress. coat and And when Woman says a to place on certain odour makes her ill, the hangers-funny little doll-like means precisely that. Tie ner- figures, balls and flowers.

the auit.

same line

The

What's "Safest" Year

In Life Span?

We all

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in bringing up their child before

he reached the teens grow very much discouraged with him for come years thereafter.

There may be many reasons. Perhaps the biggest one is that these parents have failed to keep growing with the child but tend to treat him at fifteen er sixteen as they did when he was eight or ten, though this older child is a very different! person. From British Columbia, Canada, a mother writes:

H. N. BUNDESEN, M.D. WHICH is the safest age; in Winney.

young adulthood, full maturity? At which stage:

Feels Disappointed in lite is

the individual best

"As I am so disappointed in; protected against death? Are the attitude of my boy, sixtech, #peciul

safeguards needid at toward me, I thought I won't certain, voints. nu..the journey like some advice. During his theke from the cradle to childhood up to 12 or 13 he was į

a cheerful good-natured child, It is certainly true that as a always

ED please the way person grows older. his chances me. I treated him

I wanted to be treated when ! of surviving from one birthday. to the next change considerably."

child. My childhood was, The first year

of life. for not pleasant. He is still treated example,

buzardous time the best I know how. I gol a and the first week is particu-shock when I kissed him and he showed resentment, At larly dangerous.

times I think he hates me. He is fussy about his food, eats little, is pale and underweight.

Ex

Period of Infancy

Once the child has passed the

wonling

Is it

About as follows I answerid

-period--of--Infancy,-bis-chances just his age?- Please -advise:---- for survival grow better and better during the next ten years this mother, It is highly prob but after this the situation is

Fable that you foul and act adds forward this young reversed and the

man as if he or ten, even were only nine

10-

ha

surviving gradually grow less.

Thus, according to statistics, four or five. A wise mother the safest year of life begins hardly would kiss her son ot with your 11th birthday. When

any age unless the felt sure he

the child reaches this age would welcome such caressing,

period, he has already passed Perhaps you have embarrassed through the hazards of the him at times by kissing him cr catching diseases, .such as by other show of affection when scarlet fever, diphtherin, and other persons, especially his pals, measles. Furthermore, the were around. On the other chronic or long-continued dis- hand, any

to youth inclines orders which come on Inter in welcome such symbols of affec- life do not develop in children tlon in privacy. Then he may

mic-

of this age. It would appear suppose that your symbols of that the death rate of boys of endearment merely

arc the age of eleven is 73 per 100,- chonical and that you don't 000, and for girls It is about 45. really share a deep

sense of These rates are only half as sympathy with him. high as they were 12 years ago, but there is more that can be

1. close to reduce Lern still further.

Poor Appetite

you.

nent

Your expressed concern over his pallor and poor appellie Large numbers of the deaths

suggests that you often

talk which occur are due to RC- Axiously

and

fretfully about cidents; in fact, they account these matters, suggesting to for about 2/5 of the deaths

your excessive manage among the boys, and 1/6 among

of him, excessive bossing. the girls. Fatal accidents are auxious demeanour and voice four times as frequent among could be the biggest wall be- boys ns among girls.

tween

him and

What he Other conditions which are needs is a mother to inspire tim responsible for fatalities among with hopefulness and self-regard children,

age are and enthusiasm over interests rheumatic

fever,

cancer, infan- outside himself which he can file paralysis, appendicitis, and

share freely with other boys and girls of his nge. I am sure Such conditions as append!-

understood citis, pneumonia and tuberculosis he doesn't feel he is are amenable to treatment if the and appreciated as the person conditions are discovered early be le or would like to be. and the treatment carried out

luberculosis,

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this of

Rheumatic Favar

It is important that the child with, rheumalle

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lis Try to have faith in normal development and let

him alone,

The Season's Choice

fever be kept Film Fashion Designer

mea-

Sigmund Crane

Every

vini.

she

violet.

Let's Eat &

BY

IDA BARLEY ALLEN

of the

of the old

oll

glove and

Delicious Uses for Plums

was in a great city market ing condiments. I have, tasted in

r.

In California that the Chet America is made from plums, and I saw a magnificent display

of plums. They ranged from

Plum Condiment bright red to dark purple; from Remove the stones from one. yellow to green," interspersed quart tart plums. Cut up the

Then with blue-black varieties.

plums. We learned that some were raisins, cup dry currants, 1

or water called "prunes" because they cup

apple cups light brown could be dried for use later on. 15

add

cup.

Juice,

caycane

A few were Japanese or Chinese sugar, 1 teaspoon mixed pastry

salt, 1 tea-- varieties, but the most popular spice, 1 teaspoon were the Italian and French. spoon ginger, 1 teaspoon pa-

56 teaspoon The Chef was proud of the fact prika,

2 crushed peeled that the California prune in- pepper and

The

Burtle Is dustry was largely based on sections garlic.

cesential to blend the different over CESC prunes brought

the

French

less than a century ago.

but you will not have mell, Boll these Ingredients "In France we call this the slowly for 30 minutes, or until petite prune." He explained.

You see the skin in a dull the plums are very soft.

until

Then

reddish purple, the flesh is very rub through a sieve and simmer thick Hike marmalade. sweet and it dries quickly to his will keep indefinitely in a make the dried prune."

"And here are black Damson cool place. It is a sauce unique

to delight the palate." plums," I remarked. "My grandmother used to moke them into Jum."

Fine Compoto

"These nice green gages make a fine compote," said the Chef. "And I also like to use them on truit salad plates in combina- tion with the cherry-red Formosa plums, around a snowy mountain of cottage cheese in a valley of | lettuce all this in miniature of

course," he chuckled.

Dinnor

Tomato Slice Saladettes Finnan Haddio a la Nowburg Flaky. Rice Buttered String Beans. Plum Ple Hot or Iced Coffee or Tea Milk (Children).

All Mesurements Are Level: Recipes Serve Four

Tomato Slico Saladotter

Select 1 large ripe tomato. Wash and cut off the stem endź!

4.

"And 'open' plum ples and and cut the tomato in

crosswise slices Put each one: tarts are delicious, Chef. cream cheese pastry crust in in a nest of lettuce leaves, or on best, and the filling should not a slice of iceberg lettuce. Top ball of well-chilled be loo thick. Usually I add 2 withi tablespoons

cottage cheese seasoned with of quick-cooking tapioca to-3 cups of cut-up.. minced chives, grated carrot and plums and 4 cup sugar. This grated green pepper. Four over quantity of tapioca is enough to French dressing. Garnish with PRILLIANT auswer to absorb the juice. The pluma ripe olives.

What shall I wear? is never add water, they should not be peeled, Goes this shot taffeta frock of juley in themselves,"

By PRUNELLA WOOD

and I aro so

allowing

Finnan Haddio a la Newburg Place 1 lb. Annan haddie in a under medical care. While no

bowl, and pour Over enough. shining polish, which com speclite cure for this disease has been found, with rest, the use of

The way we make fruit tarts water to cover. Drain at once bines green and red with ante will be of interest to and dry. Brush with vegetable Back To Low Waistline sulfonamides and other

that overcast of

and slow-broilen cut in black

our readers, First." observed fat sures, much of the damage to

Hollywood, Cal subtle--tometimes worked out which is typical of so-called the Chef, "wo-Bake the tart about 10 min 200 the heart, which this condition

OWERED waistlines and in the facket of a sult, or in a

shells of French pastry. Often- small cubes or fake it, coarse. causen may be warded-off,

siceva muffs are among the scarf te that dips at one side of shot silk or gloria.

melt 3 tbsp, buiter or Usually, with prompt diag Ideas Edith Head is fostering in the waistling

Simply cut with consider-we do not cook the fruit ling

For

Add 3 tbsp. mo

minced nosis of appendicitis and reher designa for motion pictures |moval of

dramatise it, but just use it raw. the appendix, no with

Sleova muffs and sleeveletsable flare to

aux prunes, par example, we green pepper and 1 tbsp. minced D fashion angle which

than elaborate would cut up one pound of nice pimiento, and slow-fry about 3 deaths from this condition need Paramount plans to release to are interesting accessory ideas rather

or apple Of course, all parents should ward the end of this year end in me Mure in drency or trimming, the pretty dress ripo sweet plums and mix with nin, or until soft. Stir in 2 tbsp.

in the spring of 1930.

Ing films in dressy or is a season 'tweany, with in half glass of currant or

ogus... Lad

Gradually sports fabrics can be used us uses all-Winter in snowy or Jelly melted over hot water. This be on the lookout to employ all

2 c. whole milk and cook measures nécessary for the pre-The lowered waistline, which such or allpped onto one wrist.

protect the Annan haddle and the re- Home and on the streets. Care- fashion of the 20's, is combined. They alld contrast to the sleeves or without a hat, it is the hold the plums,

which ful supervision by parents and with taut bodices in contrast to nod can serve to make the theatre, restaurant, bridge them from the air. We serve moining Ce

decorated with should be sileed; add pepper, to placing more stress

silhouettes of His three-quarter leave wearable or canasta on safety the bloused

game cholce, plojn, education would undoubtedly earlier counterpart. As deve for more women. Mits Head dress-up, but not formal, whipped cream. They are easy taste and salt if needed.

to make and, not expensive. And stand to become very hot. Add reduce the toll from accidents loped by Miss Head, the clothes also designs the sleevelets up n

fresh and

speaking of plums," he con- 1 tsp. lemon juice and sorve and make the safest age even do not look radical because the way of pepping up a lost perennially.

feminine. lowering of the waistline is season's dress.

thued, "one of the most interest with flaky rice.

decur.

and the mached yolks of

vention of accidents, both in the bears some resemblance to the Sleeveleta pervo two purposes, palmstrewn places. With wo but in the tart shells and let add

cool: The jelly suffens enough to and stir until boiling. Then add

and protect

inter,

or

whites,

Let