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Miracles Iterforthed 'While.Tou Wait—At the Ex. This year free rhiracles are performed in im-
;proving:Milady's ;looks, In ;picture 1, Mary Hamilton .demonstrates how she might look arriving
;at Ithe4L'avely Woman how;.Sin picture 2, she proudly poses after receiving free permanent, free
'facial, freelesson inposture and finally free ,counselling in choosing most suitable wardrobe. All
'women :.visitors Ito Canada's 'fbig Fair were invited to see Lovely Woman production produced
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twice daily in Woman's World Theatre, second floor of Coliseum.
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ONICLE
INCE
Gwentiottme P. Cleaice
'Some dike ;big louses, some •small.
;Generally speaking I 'dike plenty of
Apace. Rut :the last :couple of days
Tete leen thinking there i -some-
*ling .to1he said in favour of a one -
;loom ,apartment. Yon este, I've lost
;my .glasses and II !haven't' any idea
An which of tour eleven rooms they
xaay lbe lidden. So I go tramping
Isom tone !ram ito .another, upstairs
and down, turning ,over this thing,
looking into that! trying fo remem-
lber 'exactly 'Where 1 was the last
time I used thera—but so far to no
email. By the time I have foundemy
glasses —if and when I do — I
shall probably have used up the
price of the glasses in shoe -leather.
If we lived in one room it would at
least limit my lost and found area,
although those who know from ,exer.
periezace tell me it is amazing the
-things that can disappear even in
one room.
Added to my too -many -rooms
problem there is Honey! ,Could she
by any chance have taken my glasses
outside? If so howe far from the
house do you stop looking on a
hundred acres? Last winter, if you
remember, I lost my glasses one
time and found them in the coalbin.
By the teeth marks on the ear -lugs
I didn't need to be a Sherlock
Holmes to know how they got
there', Fortunately I have another
pair of glasses but they are bifocals
—and I don't like them—at least
not for reading or typing.
However, even without reading
glasses I ,can distinguish good work e.
from bad, .And that leads up to a
very real "beef."
A few months ago 1 bought a
mock—you know, the kind of thing,
women wear around the house. It
was a .very pretty smock, spun
rayon, nice lines, and apparently
well made. It cost $4.98. But alas,
with a few washings the smock
started coming to pieces because the
seams were neither pinked, bound
nor overcast and so frayed right
down to the stitching. To save the
garment I had to practically remake
it. Since I had had similar experi-
ences before I thought to myself—
`Well, I suppose that is, what comes
of buying ready-made thiegs—prob-
ably all garments are the same ex-
isept in the top -price braCket."
But one day last week Daughter
brought me home at smock . .. and
what a difference! On this smock
nearly every seam was piftked—or
if it couldn't be pinked h was faced
With bias bihding. It was made of
a good quality print, cost $2.95 and
—I hate to ,adinit it—was bought in
Buffalo. Naturally the question I
want to raise is this: If ready-to-
wear garments can be made proper-
ly in the U.S.A., why not in Can-
ada? Are things just thrown to-
gether in this country because we
just accept them and ask for nothing
better? If that is so then here is
one person who would like to do a
lot of asking. The question is
where? Is there a manufacturer's'
association that would give an ear
to such complaints or is there any
other way in which we women
could agitate to have better quality
work on the garments that are
offered for sale?
I also have another worry—but
it isn't exactly a "beef." Daughter
also brought home a little white
blouse for her three-year-old god-
son in Toronto. The blouse cost a
dollar—and Daughter said it was
cheap at the price. But I was horri-
fied . . . a dollar—for that little bit
of a thing! It bothered me so' much
that I: promptly sat down, took a
pattern off the ready-made blouse,
and made two more from old broad-
cloth shirts I had around.
I was appalled to think of what
young mothers who can't Sew must
spend on children's clothes. But
thank goodness some of them know
how to use a needle and thread. I
had a letter from one reader -mother
and what she does in the way /of
sewing and knitting, for her own
family, and for sale, is amazing.
Seems to me it would be worthwhile
for any young wife and mother to
learn enough about sewing to that
she could at least make clothes for
her pre -school-age children.
And speaking of letters . . . I
often wish my correspondents would
add a pen -name to their own so that
letters could sometimes be answer-
ed in this column. My fan mail is
often, so good and so interesting I
sometimes feel I would like to share
it. But of course, unless a letter is
sent to me with that understanding,
I respect the writer's confidence and
do not refer to it in any way that
will bring recognition to the sender:
$o friends, bow about it? Do you
think you would care to add a pee.
name next time you write?
Large Order
Wanted: Small horse, Ntut be
gentle and able to work. Alco do
•auto repairing.—Plaut City (Flor-
ida) Courier.
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Smelling Colors
Can you smell different colours?
Two scientists say that cockroaches
can—and perhaps human being, too.
They believe that colours affect
the sense of smell through a sudden
loss of heat in the smell organ.
At an experiment scientists used
a board with alternative squares of
lampblack—which has no odour—
and unpainted aluminum, Cock-
roaches in a cage were placed over
the board and the lights turned out.
When the test was over all the
cockroaches were found to be di-
rectly over the black squares.
Not A Thing
Girl (arriving late at game)—
"What's the score, Larry?"
Escort—"Nothing to nothin g."
Girl—"Oh, goody! Then we
haven't missed a thing!"
Teeth :Sewn Into
Your Gums
Fa:ee :dental service in Britain hes
caused the biggest boom ever in the
manufacture of artificial teeth. Cy-
prus is sending nine million teeth
a year and a Blackpool factory is
turning them out at the rate a forty
million per. year, with production
still climbing.
Before the war thirty million false
teeth were used in Britain every
year, ten million being home-pro-
tduced and the rest imported,
'Chief material used for their man-
ufacture is acrophylic plastic. Sets
are "authenticated" by touching
them up with colours and markings
found on your own natural teeth.
But the time may come when
your new teeth will be "sewn" into
your gums. This has already been
done with cats. "Tooth buds" have
been taken from the gums of one-
week -old kittens and transplanted
into full-grown cats. It is claimed
that the buds developed into normal
teeth.
In early times it was believed
implicitly that the pain of toothache
was caused by the efforts of a small
worm persistently boring through
the tooth, and to this day in parts
of the Hebrides toothache still goes
by the name of the worm.
In China, too, travellers have re-
ported seeing a patient writhing in
agony whilst the village "dentist,"
having inserted a long, sharp -point-
ed instrument into the hollow of
the tooth, calmly taps away with a
little wooden mallet to impale the
mischief -making creature.
Toothpicks have been used from
Roman times. In the seventeenth
century it was considered fashion- .
able for a gentleman to carry a case
of toothpicks round with him. On
the Continent they are still used by
the million.
In France several factories do
nothing else but manufacture thein
from wood or quills. They are ex-
ported to all parts of the world.
One firm boasts that they turn out
172 different models, flavoured with
essences such as mint, rose, cloves
and violet.
Much Too Much
The Oppenheimer brothers were
interviewing applicants for the job
of private secretary. One Amazo-
nian creature had excellent ref-
erences, but the brothers did not
enthuse after she waddled oht. "I
don't think she'll do," said one.
"There's too much of her in. the
first place." His brother added,
"That goes for the second place,
too I"
By Request
Bernard Shaw was eating his
usual meatless dinner with a learned
confrere when the restaurant's or-
chestra struck up a particularly
noisy piece. When, after the briefest
of intermissions, it launched into an
even noisier one, Shaw summoned
the headwaiter. "Does this orchestra
play anything on request?" he ask-
ed. "Oh, yes, sir," said the head-
waiter. "Excellent," snapped Shaw.
"Kindly tell them to play dominoes."
Show Must
Go On—
• Despite the
. strike of Paris
seamstresses
for higher
wages, models
and fashion
designers were.
anxious to
have their fall
collections
ready in time..
• So they took •
things into their
own hands to
make sure the
show goes on.
• Using a statue
for a
dressmaker's
form, these
models put the
finishing
touches on a
dress in the
gardens of the
swank shop
where they
work.
AFTER YOU
CLEAR IME %AIX
latSIDIR If
111S TOO COLD TO
PLAY OUT IN THE
SNOW!
TABLE TALKS
sittessnr... ees
eJar a Andrews..
Tomatoes are plentiful --in our
yours—and as far as my immedi-
ate family is concerned, recipes
*re Tit t's tmeals, i ea
about "fancy" ways bo serve thetlta
district at least, and I hope in
wteastseaythofteimy e.eat them
1)
after meals, and with
meals, just as they come from the
vine --raw, raw, raw. (I do try and
;511 them wash the tomatoes
However, there are others—like
myself—who sometimes like our
tomatoes dressed up a bit. And it's
to them I'm passing on this recipe
for a very hearty, and tasty, lun-
cheon or supper dish:
BROILED TOMATOES
ON CORN CUSTARD
3 cups corn, (canned or
fresh cooked)
3 tablespoons fat
3 tablespoons flour
VA cups milk
2x/4 teaspoons salt
3/4 teaspoon pepper
3.1/2 tablespoons chopped
pepper (green or red)
4 (eggs, slightly beaten .
IVIethod: Combine all the above,
then turn into greased individual
molds, placed in a pan of hot water.
:•13.4teimtil set, (about 30 minutes
at ;325 degrees). Then top your
corn custards with tomato slices
made as follows: Dip 6 tomato
slices in one egg, slightly beaten;
then into 1 cup cracker crumbs.'
Then broil the slices in a pan
with 3 or 4 tablespoons butter or
shortening. A friend of mine adds
a "finishing touoh" by garnishing
with diced, crisp bacon—but they're
grand eating even without that.
* *
Names are funny things; and
when a friend out in the far west
sent me this next recipe, I couldn't
help wondering why. it was so
titled. But after I'd tried it, I
understood. The "Oh's" and "Ah's"
represent the appreciative sighs
ynu;re, liable to hear after folks
taste- ihe first piece—and pass back
their plates for a second. It's:
MOTHER'S OH'S AND AH'S
HOCOLATE CAKE
3 egg yolks
1 cup sour cream.
1% cups sugar
2 ounces chocolate
13/41A1 cteims flour
cupahot
s po wateron vanin a
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon soda
Method: Beat egg yolks and
sour cream together. Add the sugar
and beat until thick. •Dissolve cho-
colate in hot water and add to
cream and eggs. Add the flour;
then the three egg whites, whkh
have been whipped. Bake in a
moderate oven (350-375) for about
50 minutes, or until done.
* * *
And with the grape season upon
us—or pretty nearly—perhaps it
wouldn't be out of the way if I
included a couple of fine ways of
using that delicious fruit. The first
is:
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SPICED G1APl11 JAM
a quarts grapes
2 pounds sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon allspice
1 bottle certo or other fruit
pectin
Method: Wash and crush the
fruit. Add the sugar and spices.
Being qtickly to boil in large
kettle, stirring constantly. Boil for
2 minutes, then add the fruit pec-
tin. Skim carefully and pour into
hot, sterilized pint jars, or into
jelly glasses. Seal. (Paraffin'If you
use jelly glasses). Makes 3 pints
or nine 6 -oz. glasses.
* * *
AMBER GRAPE MARMALADE
4 cups grape pulp (skins
removed)
2 cups sour applesauce
334 cups sugar
2 teaspoons grated lemon
rind
Method% Cook the grape pulp in
a small amount of water until soft
enough to sieve. Pass through a
sieve and add the sour applesauce,
and bring to a boil. Then add the
sugar and grated lemon rind. Sim-
mer until thick and jelly-like. Pour
into hat, sterilized glasses. Para-
ffin, Makes about seven 6 -oz.
glasses.
Obliging
"Madam," said the kennel owner
to the newly richt sportswoman, "I
offer you this thoroughbred blood-
hound." "How do I know it's a
loodhound?" she asked doubtfully.
"Hector," the owner ordered the
dog, "bleed for the lady."
WANT
Old gold, Jewellery, sterling silver,
dental sold. antique Jewellers, near)
sunbursts and watch eases.
Gather together your forgotten articles
and turn them into dollars at The
Gold Shelve (Crawfords), 189 Yonge
Street, Toronto. Prompt valuation on
teemed parcels.
Soothe
them with
MINARD'S
35c ;uningct.dubrc:11efrtelY'
rying.f areastreicao.
and not*
SII r 65c odor. '1 8°- 'At
CLIME !ECONOMICAL
WANTED
YOUNG WOMEN
for
Harvesting Peaches, Plums,
Pears, Apples, Grapes, Tomatoes
and
other Fall fruits and vegetables
Accommodation in
Farm Service Force Camps
August 15th to November 15th
Campers must bring
blankets, sheets and pillow case
For further information write:
Ontario Farm Service Force
9 Richmond Street East
Toronto 1, Ontario.
Auspices:
Dorninion-Provincial
Farm Labour Committh
YOU WOMN WHO SUFFE
HOT FIASHESth:r
FEEL CLAMMY
Due to 'change of lifer
Are you going through'iliyng 'change
of life'? Deem this functional disturbance
;make you stoner from hot &whoa, nerve
vow, and clammy feelings, weakness
and a sense of being irritable and high.
strung? Then do :try Lydia n. Pe:at:harem
• Vegetable Compound to relieve snob
symptoms.
Many wise women take Pinkhones
Compound regularly to help build up
resistance Iterikis'ook this distress. Pink.
ham's Compound acts on one of workmen
most important organs and has such e
grand soothing effect.
,Lyelfa Ea Pfink
In addition, this groat medicine is a
line stomachic tonic. A real hleestne for
women who starer this way.
NOTE' Or you may prefer Lydia E.
Phakhrutee TABLETS with added Imo.
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