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hy ae Ge, gf Te SEIT rn IL ~ ne SEER AE ope a & dad: Ty 3 Sok WY ry (1 4 X e 3 ) 3 { Ll YR i* J €«" Valerie had to think very y ; : Old Clothes ane el et iiss take ver | Do Women Dress TABLE TALKS hand, although she got up and Ar artest" That's the Slogan In Britain Just NAw--Rationing, Raids gird. Realism Transform Cor: rect Fashions Rationing, raids and realism are altering Britain's sartorial scheme, which for years has been regard. ed as the most conservatively cor- rect of the world, The Briton. who wouldn't step oft Bond Street for a suit is now digging in the attic for something abandoned years ago, and the most proper of proper ladies are trip- ping barelegged down Regent Street. ' . q 'FROCKS FROM THE ATTIC Starch officially disappeared "from shirts when the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street--tho Bank of England -- pontifically proclaimed that its clerks could wear brighter clothes. No longer are new clothes offic. fally connected with smartness, The Government, in fact, is launch. ing a campaign with the slogan, "Old clothes are the smartest." Lots of people are then in style. Here is a typical street scene to- day: A man in his middle forties In gray flannels topped by a once severe black morning: coat walking with a pretty woman in slacks, her blonde hair tied with a turban, Formal striped pants worn with a pullover sweater and a tweed coat by another stroller. UNIFORMS MOST POPULAR With laundry prices what they are and shirts rationing 'in effect, British shirts are being put to a severe test. Many are gelling a rest only on week-ends. _-Shirts with the collars attached, a style which never fully caught on anyhow, are as scarce as lem. ons in this summer of the war. Straw hats, likewise, are seldom seen. llats are not rationed but they are regarded generally as a Juxury. . Conclusion: The most popular gaibs of all are the uniforms of the fighting forces. Fall Fashions Have Vitality Tendency Is Toward Slim Skirt and Torso Interest -- Life and Color Are Featured _ The fall collections that have been shown in New York so far aro full -of vitality, life and color. While there is a general tendency, not yet a real trend, toward a slim skirt and much torso Interest, there are many classic tailored suits, many natural waist-line slim dresses and also many pleated skirts--a few flared--and the long torso getting ready to recelve a scant pleated skirt and become tho old-fashioned princess dress of 1914. Yoke treatments extend the walst sometimes in front and back only. There are many numbers with front fullness and very plain backs. ' Yokes are very popular and there are many dressmaker details that give distinction to dresses. THREE-PIECE ENSEMBLES Textured and plain fabrics vie for supremacy. Jersey is still a favorite fabric and there are new homespun tweeds, American tweeds from handlooms. A great quantity of "quality" British iniports have been used and one of the new com- binations is slacks and skirts of Scotch wool tartans, Fur-trimmed suits are seen in many manufacturers' collections and sheer woolens for daytime and afternoon come in beautiful pastels as well as rich autumn tones. Three-plece ensembles are still popular. Coats and suits dre con servative and fit and flare, but - suit jackets without exception are longer, and there is a soft dress. maker torso treatment that Is flat. toring, Furs are not fantastic In good houses. They have an elegant line and a conservative cut. This is in tho spirit of 1941 fashions. Deep armholes and bias should. ers do most to create the fmpress. jon of a new silhouette. Lawn Health Depends On Regular Trimming Householders who pass vacations away from home should arrange to have the lawn cut regularly in their absonce to preserve the thickness of the turf. It permitted to grow without restraint, the base of the plants will become hard, and If seed is al fowed to develop, much of the strength of the plants will be lost. When the tall 'growth Js cut back a coarse stubble will be left. Despite careful feeding any, water- {ng, this condition will persist for several weeks, as the' formation of new grass from a hard, tough arown is slow. , i) Health Hint 17 FA PR Stop and let the train go by, It only takes a minute; Xt our ear will start again, intact, And, better still, you're in it. \ \ less and still get better results, you use it, CALUMET © Ask your grocer for Calumet, Try it and see how double-action permits you to use Notice, too, how the Calumet tin opens at a slight twist of the wrist -- yet never spills, even when full. Under the lid is a handy device to level each spoonful as IS PRICED SURPRISINGLY LOW MARRYING MARK . . .. by Violette Kimball Dunn 2 ) hy SYNOPS|S "After Mark's beautiful wife, Ellen died, Mark, for almost the first time, became aware of his adopted daughter Valerie, four- teen. Ellen's relatives insist that Valerie come to live with them, but Mark Is just as insistent that she stay with him. Dorothy, El. len's sister, has her eye on the trust fund that Ellen left Valerie, and has already begun to make efforts to obtain custody of the girl. She insists that Valerie wear black, but Mark s«ys she can have whatever clothes please her most. | © CHAPTER VI. Valerie went into her dressing room and opened the big clothes closet to "pass final sentence on the solemn dregses in an orderly row on their angers. It hardly scemed possible she was about to wipe the place bare ofgthem and start all over again. She pulled down thef things, be- ginni : ly disliked, and cary to pile neatly on Jfer bed. fing them in Then hilarity of their shopping. Nothing Mark did could be so very wrong. And them. She got out the pile of boxes * from the corner of the dressing room, and began to untie them, lifting out delicious layers of white tissue paper, from which rose faint but exciting scent, she shook out the bright chiffons, the organdies, and the tweeds, she forgot Ellen and her theories. Forgot the empty rooms below. Forgot, for the time, even that there was Mark. 5 She was balanced in enchant- ment before the newly filled clos- et when Mrs. Banford walked into the room. . Valerie jumped and confronted her, standing be- . sively. "[--I'm afraid 1 didn't you knock--" she said. ' What About Mourning? hear "I knocked three times," said Mrs. Banwood. "What in% the world!" A "1 "Just--just my new things.. I --I'm sorry 1 didn't hear you." chiffon critically. "And who is going to wear these?" she asked. "J--1 am." Valerie ran past her into the bedroom and gatherea 'a pile of sober garments -from the bed. "These are for you." She thrust them into Mrs. Bamwood's arms. "My father said you would know what to do with them. You see, somebody may need them--" "Who bought you the others?" magic. She wanted to say them over and over--'my father." When she said it, she could see the ugly gray of Mrs. Banwood's dis- approval fade. i "Aren't you going to wear any "able to speak in nothing but ques- tions, They sounded bald, even to her own ears. : "My father says it's whit's 'in your heart--not what color ydu have on." : ' Mrs. Banwood lookéd down" at hardly in her grave!" + Nervous tears filled Valerie's 0 (Janteclon © Slow Burning CIGARETTE PAPERS NONE FINER MADE DOUBLE ASA: 0 ~~ ISSUE 30--'41 0 ¢ with the offes, she special- | she rgmembered Mark, and the | Mark had said get rid of. As: fore the swaying garments defen-™ Mrs. Banwood fingered a bright ~ "My father." The words made mourning?" The woman seemed her accusingly. "And your mother ~ ~~ "erie, who found the grimace terri- . clothes "more firmly in her long "book, and trying to finish a story home---" sight of Elise's maroon car in the : : eyes. She could almost see the world turning again into the dim and dusty place where she had lived so long. Mrs. Banwoou was a little troubled at the tears. After all, the child was mot her business. Let them dress her in rainbows, for all of her. Housckeepers were not at a premium with conditions what they were, and places like this didn't grow on bushes. She tried to smile reassuringly at Val- fying. "Thanks for Mrs. Banwood. the things," said She. settled the arms, "I know two little girls who aren't lucky like you. They will be thankful enough to have them." : . Shirley and Elise Everything nice scemed to be happening at once. Also several things that. were not nice. The best was that the day before they were going away, Shirley called her up. Valerie had 'thought she had forgotten. . Mark was in town, and. Chil tern called her to the telephone in the upstairs sitting room. "Will you speak to Miss Endicott on the telephone, if you please, Miss Valerie?" in Chiltern's bes an- ner. 8 id Valerie had almost forgotten the. smoot lovely tones of Shir- - ley's voice. Shirley's message was brief. ,She wanted, she said, to remind Valerie of their engage- ment. "I've been up to my cars, dar- ling, or I'd have phoned before. Going oter the proof of a silly for an exasperated editor only two jumps behind me. Could I drive over and get you, tomorrow?" "Tomorrew we're going away," said Valerie. She would have beer] almost sad if.she hadn't wanted ta_ go so much. There was something about, Shirley that was so swect. "Could--could you please have me when we get back?" It took-cour- age to suggest it, but she couldn't quite give it up. "Wé wouldn't be gone so very long. I de so want to come to your party? "Of course," said Shirley over the wire. "Perhaps it will be even nicer, bBcause we'll have® more time to think about it. Call me as soon as you get back, and we'll make a date, Maybe Mark "would come for dinner and bring 'you home." , "Oh--yes--" It was wonderful how things straightened out. "Have a good time, darling. Don't forget -- when you get "I won't -- good-bye--thank you." She sat still for a moment after she put the telephone back, What was -not so nice was the drive, v3 she came back from a flying trip to the kennels, -late that afternoon. - She would have ruil away to lose herself in thn shrubbery if Elise hadn't caught sight of her just as the big front door swung open. ? Elise turned back and drew Valerie into the house beside her, Valerie led the way into the main drawing room, which always awed her slightly, But she felt that for- . mality belonged to Elise. She sat on the edge, of a patit-point chair, because Elise had sat down and was undoing her furs. . "I happened to be passing the 'gates, and thought I'd run in and, sec if 1 could carry You off to drive a little," she saidg"You must need cheering' up, darling. You've been on my mind night and day, and I'd have run in days ago, but. I thought it more tactful to leave you and your dear daddy to get. a bit acquainted." Bliag got up and went to Val. érie's 'chair' and held out her hand, "We're! going to be great pals," she said.- "Come on--we'll drive till dinner time; then I'l" bring you back and 'your daddy. may be home, and perhaps you'll take pity on me and give me a bite to eat. Wouldn't it be sweet ~=jupt us three?" : stood beside her. "Oh--yes--thank you--" she said. "But yqu see, we're going on a trip. Tomorrow morning. Very early. My father may not get home until lgte tonight. And I'm packing--at least, I'm helping--" (To be continued) Fire-Hose Made To F ight Nazis Histor Mill Turns Out 1,000 Miles of it Since ,War Began To fight the Nazi's rain of incen- diarles on Britain, 1,000 miles of fire hose have been turned out since the war began by the wea. vers In a north of England village, says the Montreal Star. Here craftsmen were weaving on their band looms two hundred years before the mill from which ft came began the manufacture of up-to-date canvas hose, They made by hand the saileloth, the tradition runs, for Nelson's famous flagship "Victory." Weavers Turn It Out The mill in which their des cendants work has produced more than eight thousand miles of fire hose by modern machine methods: One order was for 200 mi'es of it. It was in this same village that two brothers working in a cellar, wove the first circular tube which eventually led to the making of flax hose-piping. They hit on the fdea when trying to discover a sim- pler way of making purses. ' Open-Air Meal Fine For Health It's Lots of Fun For the Children -- Great Many Ad- ults Love A Picnic Children love meals out-of-doors. Nowadays, when every family owns a car and beaches and woe are go handy to the towns, the old fashioned children's picnic ought to come back in better form than ever, writes Angelo Patri, child psychologist. 1t would do the moth. ers good terget a day off and spend it with the childfen in the open alr. Eating in thi open, picnic fash- jon, the good home-cookey Tood would bo a rare treat. Hot dogs at good smelling messes mothers take out of the big-thermos jars. There is 'always an-.lce cream man about to supply the Tost essential dish of ally If } Mome fun," home-cooked food, neighborly sharigg of good times seems to be slipping into the past. Now is a good time to bring them "back for the refreshment of body and spirit. Eat More Fish "Instead of Pork Housewives Prapating the Fafiitffy Meals Can Help the Government in Two Ways by Following: This New Rule . Department of fisheries officials anil "the fish industry are hopeful many Canadians can be: persuaded to eat fish gakes or fried fillets of fish for 'breakfast instead of bacon ox ham, now that the call has gone out for Canadians to eat . less pork products. A pronfotion program to increase fish consumption has been going on for some time, department of- strators move from town to town telling housewives the benefits of fish in the diet, and showing how to cook it. % FISH INDUSTRY WILL BENEFIT With the bacon board asking con- sumers to cut down their consump- tion of bacon and ham and other pork products and prices of other meats fairly high, department offi- cialg regard this as an opportune time to get Canadians into the way of eating fish." "I am sure the fish industry will be fully alive to this opportunity," "sald Dr. D. B- Finn, deputy minis- ter of fisheries. "While bacon and fish taste different both are rich jw protein and from a nutritive-stand- point are similar," he said, Along the coast fish cakes mado from . salted or dried fish are a inland they are not used. Eskimo Woman' Granted Divorce For the first time in history an Eskimo woman was when Mr, Justice T. M. Tweedie granted a decree nisi to Kim- maner, otherwise known as Marie Theresa, , , ; i Defendant to the action was "Parker," an Eskimo living at Chesterfield Inlet, NNW.T, . The plaintiff, . who formerly lived at Chesterfield Inlet, now is domici- Jed in Edmonton and was inter- preter for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police at Chesterfield. - crazy hats? 'on in a high wind? home are ordinary compared to the - ficlals said last week, and demon-' fairly: common breakfast diet, but granted a- divorce in Alberta Supreme Court * As Men Prefer? Writer Lists Number of Fash- ions Not Popular With Males You think women dress to please men, asks Alicia Hart, Well, it you are right, then why is it that some women: Wear flat-heeled shoes, tailored shirts and plain felt hats with man- nish suits? (Men Invariably hate euch eevere get-ups.) Buy completely wild, completely Anything that makes the average male feel conspicuous usually infuriates him (Belng seen with a woman in an attention-get- ting hat generally makes him feel + conspicuous.) Hate Severe Get-Ups Use scarlet nail polish? (Can you name more - than one. you ever heard say he' liked it?) Keep right on wearing girdles? (Just remember how many times your husband has said that you lcok better without one.) Wear perfume only for dress-up occasions and then wear too much of it? (Men like perfume--but a little goes a long way.) Tolerate chipped and nail polish? Prefer ultra-chle clothes to pretty ones? Choose heels so high and slender that a graceful walk is quite out of the question? Wear sports hats that won't stay cracked Cling to boxy. jackets and other clothes that hide the natural lines of the figure? (The only figure a _ man thinks should be hidden bhe- hind loose folds of material is the _bad figure.) Wear black continually? Reshape their mouths--with lip. slick a quarter of an inch thick? Do you still think women dress to please nien? SLJM DRESS HAS PANEL NOVELTY dress "line-perfect" that will make all your figure faults vanish magieally! Of course Pattern '4790 is an Anne Adams original--you can tell that by its smartness .. . . its artful design- ing . . . its simple, finished-be- Here's "a fore-you-know-it style. The panel that smoothly curves down the front and into the wide, low- pointing waist-girdle, insures a beautiful fit through the waist- line. The front skirt panel and another full-length panel in back . complete the slenderizing effect. The very soft-fitting side bodice sections are held trim at the shoulders by shirring, with gath- ers above the waist. You might dress-up + the becoming scallop- edged neckline with flowers or buttons, a back half-sash is op- tional. . Pattern 4790 is available in 'Women's sizes 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48 and 50. Size 36 takes 3% yards 89 inch fabric. Send twenty cents (20c¢) in coins (stamps cannot be accept- ed) for this Anne Adams pattern. Write plainly size, name, address. and style number. Send your order to Anne Ad- ams, Room 426,13 West Adelaide St., Toronto. When telling time by counting seconds a good way is to, start at 80 and say: "31 and 32 and 83," and so on, 'and vegetables. _ or half an By SADIE B. CHAMBERS Fill All The Jars! 1 read the other day that a slogan of the. last war was: "Egt what you can and what you cant eat, can," Once again we are at war and 1 believe that for this Canada of ours, with our surplus of food and oyr richness in fruits and vegetables, one of the slogans should be: "let us fill all the Jars." Firstly consider your own family and make every preserve, jelly and jam that they like. Then from the surplus, let us prepare fophthe many, many corners of the earth to which we may be ask- ed to send food. So here's to the "United Home Front!" First 1 am going to give you a few general suggestions, which seem this time of year to be a daily topic, For. your very best resilts do not use fruit unless it is sound, ripe, of a good color and shape. DoD not be overly interested in the bargain counter when it comes to fruit It just does not pay. In choosing your jars, pick those which will best serve your family as to size, so that there may be no leftovers to spoil. Test all jars before using. Ad. just rubber rings, fill with water and invert to test for leaks. Dis- card any jar which cannot be made air-tight. This is always economy. Always use fresh rubber rings. Always sterilize jars thoroughly, and if possible, give them a sun- drying and | guarantee there will be no spoiled fruit. Have you had trouble with cer- tain fruits nin in the pre-. paration--sdy peaches, pears and apples? If - using cold pack methods, as soon as your jar has been filled with fruit, pour on the boiling syrup. | using the. other methods peel at a time only the fruit which your kettle will ac- commodate, so that the fruit will not have to sit waiting for the cooking. . - Light Syrup Use 1 cup sugar to 2 cups water or half and half of sugar and corn syrup to the same proportion of water. This is-especially good for peaches and pears. Medium Syrup Use 1 2 sugar to I cup water 1 half of corn syrup and sugar to the same proportion of water.- If you wish you may use the "no sugar" method and use 1 cup corn syrup to 1 cup watef. Heavy Syrup .- This type is suitable for the very tart fruit such as cherries, berries of all kinds or the plums. Some prefer this type for peaches too. 2 cups sugar to 1 cup water or half and half again of sugar and syrup to 1 cup water, N.B.-- Always when mixing sugar syrup and water place over "a low heat at first until all is dissolved, stirring constantly to prevent burning. Open Kettle Canning Simmer; onjy-endugh-fruit at a time, that may Qe completely cov- ered with syrup. Sterilize jars "apil covers and fill with hot fruit and 'syrup while jars are still very hot and sterile. Always fill jars to overflowing with the hot fruit and syrup, while jars are still very hot. If using a knife to insert in jar to remgve bubbles, be sure it is sterile. Dip the new rubber rings in.. boiling water before adjusting on jar. Invert jars in cooling to test for leakage. } I Cold-Pack Canninng Pack the raw fruit closely in hot sterile jais. Have syrup boil. ing before adding it. : Fill jars just two-thirds from top, to allow for expansion. Slip sterile knife around for the escape of air-bubbles. - Place on rubber rings, dipping in boiling water and sterilized lids. Tighten; seal, then loosen tops one-half turn. In using hot water bath, place jars in water near their own tem- perature. Be sure to-give water time to boil after jars are placed in bath, w? When jars are placed on rack, do not allow them to touch each R Enjoy its delicious. genuine peppermint flavor after every neal . « . relieves that stuffy, feeling , + « helps keep teet clean, brightandattractive..s breath pleasant, GET SOME TODAY! othér and be sure they are cover- ed with water the entire boiling 'period. ' Hot Pack Method Observe the same rules as for cold pack only prescook fruit. be-. fore putting into jars. Steam Pressure Canning Follow the directipns given by the manufacturer. This really is the best method to insure perfect canning especially of meats and vegetables. x Some Touch-Ups If currants are available, when doing blueberries combine in half measure. If prot currant season, add lemon juice--it gives real character. In canning peaches, crack a few peach stones with a hammer and add them to your jars--one or two to each jar. You will be sur- prised at the added flavor. Who does not know the trick of adding cloves or cinnamon sticks to pears? [I like this treatment for plums-as well, Spiced Fruits Syrup: 1 quart diluted vinegar (very mild) 4bs. brown sugar, 2 ounces' whole cloves, 2 ounces stick cinnamon, piece of root gin- ger. x To the. ginger add the sugar, "stir over heat until sugar dis- solves. Bring to boil and then add spices in cheesecloth bag, Simmer fruit until tender, then transfer to jars When all fruit has been cooked, bring syrup to hard boil and fill jars to overflow- ing, Seal or cover closely for stor. ing, This amount. of syrup will take care of 8 Ibs. of fruit. Miss Chumbers welcomes personnl letters from Interested readers: She . Is please to receive on topless for her col "even rendy to listen tg, your, "pet for peeves." llequests recipes or your letters to "MI hers, 73 West Ad ronto," Send: staniped, s¢df-aid; envelope if yon wl n reply. Gay Clothes For Wartime "I don't- think clothes should be military unless they, are actually uniforms," Muriel King, leading New York'dress designer last weck told the Christian Science Monitor. "They should be lovely and gay, rather than sober rei inders of the war which we are continually dis- cussing." . ~ Many of Miss King's ideas grow as she watches her models walk . back and forth, and she makes changes until she Is entirely satis- + fled with the results. She must also adjust the costumes to suit different types of persons, and she even sometimes sends her custom- ers to a beauty salon to' correct their posture or weight, their hair- do or makeup, to enable them to get the maximum effect from their clothes, "BLENHEIM BOMBER™ » "SPITFIRE" "WELLINGTON BOMBER" RRICANES 3, "DEFIANT? SUNDERLAND FLYING BOAT" H.M.S. HOOD - RODNEY - ARK ROYAL }.M. 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