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PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT FOR PRESENT AND FUTURE Sewing

Easy-to-make And Wash' Frock For Small Fry

less 2 on each side of B telvage. Measure 3" in:

THE COMPLETED HOUSE. As additional bedroom has been added to the original home. The extra room, which is on the left side of the house, fit attractively into the exterior design, adding a rambling look to the dwelling. For added

venience, the house has two entrances

By JOAN O'SULLIVAN

KITCHEN

сол.

SMACK

SPACK

AVERY mother knows

EVERY practical Night-weight

1 to 14 yards for

on

from

lines, including D to E,

nelvage at each point; lines D and E, then Fand G, for underarms. Cut on

Draw

theso

for

steevas

Measure from Ch neck mean. Draw circle and cut out neckline. Slash down " from neckline on back fold for neek epening (1). Mark for 1" bias strips, as at I, and cut..

Gather dress around neck by

using a long stitch and

machine gathering foot.

3 to 7 tows " apari.

your

Make

Draw

a

up bobbin threads to, make

complete fint circle, as shown in T

"Take embroidery floss, and how overcast each row of machine gathering, as at K. Stitch blas ide around binding on right

of along edges reckline and

each. back opening, extending end of binding o" beyond neck spening for tles.

a

seersucker of plirse er.pe is, wear. especially for summer Buy it in light pastels or white. You can wash it as often as need not necessary, but you Iron it. Use dress.

Take child's chest measure- ment straight around body. Fold fabric lengthwise. Measure chest from lold to relvage % neas. (this allows for fullness) plus 3" (A). Pin edges together at both ends.

Place a ply on selvone half- way between ends (B) and on fold (C). Measure neck meas.

Turn to wrong side. Turn raw edge of binding under and baste. Bitch, keeping close to edge of binding on right side, Gather edge of sleeves, placing In ceritre of most gathers sleeve: bind edge the same neckline. French team under- arms.

03

Put dress on child and mark hem length. Put in hem. Re-

dresses member, short cutest.

Nick mant lose 2"

CL

C19.

BATH

BED ROOM 110*0"

BED ROOM 1:7% 17:2"

HALL

CL2

CLY.

¡VEST. CLP,

DINING

11:7*98*

2Chest +3"

1/2 Chost

PORCH

Front

LIVING ROOM 15:215'4"

PORCH 60*80*

← Shoulder to top

1/8 yds

E

H

Back

-1⁄2 Neck meost

:

of knee +5"hem

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off your history space is provided for family Dbook and turn to the use. There's a dining room fur chapter marked "Early New larger gatherings.

Chances England."

The bedroom and balh nro atented to the left of the living room, and it's here that an ad- ditional bedroom may be add- c. As you can see in the door plan and illustration, the extra

you'll find a plecture of the salt box house. It started off with a square box dwelling and then, as the family got larger, additional rooms were added,

room is well-planned for, gamt nicely with Interior and exterior design.

two three

"FLOWERI

The house pletured today, while modern in design, Eack to this old New England

Each bedroom Idea but

a difference. there's

closets, and there are When the family grow you cou hdd a room, but the architects cibers in the house one of took this into consideration and them for lines. The house has the two entrances. Ceiling height planned the home so that the addition would be an integral is the living area is B fect: part of the house. Early New The basement,

orignal home

FLOOR PLANS are designed so that the takes up 14,003 Englarklers weren't nearly

when added, is located near buth and other bedroom. Nole culile feel; the bed room add- foresighted. They added rooms.

closet space. with necessity, rather than tion, 2,000 cubic feet. architectural beauty, in.. mind.

as

The original home provides largo living and dining area. popular picture

A window and two four-paned corner windows take up one wall of the flying

This should be kept room mind when the home-maker is chosen decorating and colours

in with

the

that will blend

natural scene outside,

in

Cabinets in the kitchen, which is located in the back of Th house, are arranged on opposite walls, making it easy for the housewife to prepare meals with a minimum of effort. A snack

Seashore Chic

Shorts and bra.

COTTON Cont is the nico, used easily-laundered material for this neat pedal pushers and bra twosome. The shorts have pockets on either side and there gathers over the hips

to

In

7 feel. The

THE ORIGINAL HOUSE. The stone chimney and a small porch give added interest to the exterior, as do the picture and paned windows.

Too Much Sun May Be Harmful

By HERMAN N. BUNDESEN, M.D,

UNSHINE is undoubtedly one of our great natural aids to good general health. Ita benefits are numerous, but thers have ben so emphasised of Inte years that many people have lost sight of its equally potent hazards, particularly in the case of certain Individuals.

For come people, a few hours' exposure may mean such a revere burn as to require hospitalisation. Thus, they should shield the rkin with such preparation as solol, quinine, tanie or para- aminobenzote neld put up in a greaseless ointment.

If sunburn should occur, it may be relieved by using some olly preparation. Sometimes the person may be so severely sun- burned that he develops fover, chills, loss of fuld, shock or collapse. These things may be overcome by applying warmth, giving plenty of fulds, and administering sedatives or quieting drugs

Certain substances, when put on the skin, may lower the re- sistance to sunlight. For example, pyrethrum, and oll of bergamot, a plant extract which is often used in perfume and mosquito repellants, may cause an inflammation of the skin 1 the surfaces of the skin on which theas substances are applled Dre expored to the fun. Certain livi dirases may also sensitice the skin to sunlight as well as the sulfonamide drugs. taken Internally...

skin rash which begins in the first four years of There is a life and I known as "summer eruption." This disorder clears up after adeltscence-the maturing period. A red rash and bilsters --uppua-gia-the-cheeks, nose and forehead when the skin

exposed to sunlight. There may be severe fiching, and burning.

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additional

room,

A DINNER MENU FOR

'DOG DAYS'

come dinners are what

but what

have

Plasma And

Penicillin, Plasma

Orange Juice In Common?

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same high-vacuum process artphere are duplicated the

allowing

TO COLLECT

known brand of One well ENICILLIN, plasma and

orange juice in orange juice. They do concentrated ON hot days the most wel-

not appear to have anything Produced by the process during Room 000, Bank of East Asia,

conditions which atmospherle

20 miles Into should in common, yet they do. The existing I call 'cool-offs'. They be appetcasing, for on hot days

packing plants, appetites leg. They should in- that was first developed to juice from frech oranges to be ctude cooling foods, and be easy produce life-saving penicil- dehydrated at only $5 degrees

the housewife is und quick 30

the Fahrenheit. This Raznits, not over-cooked in a hot killin and pinsma during

war is being used to produce retention of Orvous, and vitamin

content, which has won appr time-saving fresh frozen

val of the product from the "In a hotel the Chef finds the orange juice today,

American Medical Association. ponched allels of flounder al- ways popular, Madame.

chien."

Poached Fillots

They

CBN

be prepared early in the Gay, arranged for service on n platter, and chilled. They look

glamorous.

Frezen orange juice is simply concentrated juice to which the consumer adds three parts cold water. Mix, pour drink. Sounds simple, doesn't

of and

"Let's build a menu around It? And so it is, yet some e- the poached fillets, that

the large

tains

50

con-tremely high-powered war servings of search went into perfecting the Vegetable salad, one hot process which now dehydrates vegetable, and a simple desert oranges successfully that topped with cubes of ice cream. both taste and vitamin content Most persons don't realise that are completely retained thetr

in to combat summer heat, sub-

frozen concentrated juice. stantial meals nre stül neces- Edry."

Cool-Off Dinner Vegetable "Get" Salad

Rolla

Poached Fillets of Flounder Hollandalse Crisp Potato Chips Stewed Fava Beans or Limas Raisin Bread Custards with Ice Cream Topping Hot or Iced Coffee or Tea Mills

Ali Measurements Are Level Harinas Serna Four

Vegetable "Go!" Salad

with rauce,

Dehydration defied

Until World War 11 trulls defied acceptable dehydru. ton. The product up to timo was tasteless and

citrus

that

110-

Interesting. Then some top met

nt Boston's National

Research

Corporation came along with n

worked

revolutionary high-vacuum pro cess

Their method wonders with penicillin

Fue

plasma; it did equally well with

food. Even oranges. When bust

orange

Soak 13 envelopes unflavour-ness men joined forces with the ed gelatin 5 min.

in cicatists, fresh frozen tomato juice. Add to 1c.julce was introduced to Ameri- licated tomato Julce;

sceson c Worcestershire tsp. tsp. onion juice and 4 tsp. augar, Chill 30 min, or until beginning to congeal. Then stir in 14 e. mixed cook- ed vegetables with 14 c. chap- red celery or green pepper or cucumber or shredded cabbage and a few sliced radishes to give

74

25,000-Year-Old Pebble Still

a fresh taste. Lightly rub Retains Charm

Falnd

dividual moulds or custard cups with oll. Fill with the mixture. Chill until firm, 4 hrs.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Prot. or longer. To

serve, unmoult Hallam C. Movius of Harvard, or lettuce. Top with cooked who found a 25,000-year-old rolad dressing.

stene in France, a hunter's good Juck plece, believes the charm

ill has power today.

Raisin Broad Custards Crumbla enough day-olit

white bread to minico 1% c. It won him the $1,000 Viking packed down; put in a double Fund award as "the best peb- boller top. Add 3.c. milk and ble scientists bring to scalding-point. Add 1 covered."

34. c. raisins.

In adults. exposure of the skin to ultraviolet ravis from butt fight with 2/3 c.

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ever have

dis.

to

The stone, amell enough. lamo or the sun may produce a condition known ar spidermolysis bullen in which large blisters appear on a deep red background. sugar and tsp vanilla. hold in the palm of a hand

Transfer to a 3 Thers is also a condition known as chronic actinic dermatitis,

8 pt. baking dish. covered completely with etched- in which there is ripid aging of the icins due to exposure to sub-Bland in a pan of hot wate): In pictures of prehistoric uni light wind, cold, or hea together with the sadinary changes bake in moderate oven, 350 maisy Movius said that before a which come with great

about 40 min, or till hunter set out he suratched The fact that the conditions occur with too enthusiastic ex-knife, when inserted, come out picture of the animist; he wante powure of the skinjo sutilaht should not mighten any one into clean. Serve warm or chili ed to kill on the stond our the beach, for aniling, for being '| Htaying out of thesun.

*** warning with or without ice cream to find it along a ma that even rood thing.

ping

make for an easy ft. The bra has a while pique baller-like trim that buttong in back, leav ng two perky tabe micking Lout. It is a good number for

a

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