Realm -l-:- Social and‘ Personal .-:-Fashions -:- Lite rature

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Gusr. 11 1935

MAKERS.

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suit an angel's lyreI

who work on bended knee, or make a cup of tea;

work in any weather,

A "GERMY" ARTICLE

Heavy Furiture

If the piece of furniture ls very heavy and hard to remove, do not

try to move it each week but ‘i sweep under it with a. whisk -- broom. The small amount of

dust can be remove deasily in this fashion-

A Real Economy

One housewife who has to count her pennies very carefully buys a pound of butter and a pound of margarine and mixes them well. There is no change in flavor from the fresh butter bu this measure saves quite a bit of money in the course of a year.

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Meals on Time

Regular hours for meals will be a great help to the mother of a large family Children soon learn to be on time if they know the, meal will be started whether they have arrived on not. Children are always ready to take advan- l-a-ge of the indulgent mother who will wait until they arrive before serving that meal.

TABLOID

If you will give straw baskets. suitcases, rnattings, etc., on oc- casioned coat of white vamlsh. zhey will look much better and last longer.

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.91.’ I-"Asmoirs FANCIES

“Prou-frou" drmses are worn again-you remember how "the pieuant frou-frou of her skirts" was a. favourite cliche of the Victorian novelists? They are tunics of sheered tulle or geor- getto worn over a. side skirt of taffeta.

Three rings, represening health, wealth, and happiness, are among ‘the latest jewellery novelties. The rings are worn interlinked. and ouch one is made of s different

. lour of gold. They have been or named the "lucky triple ring."

Niche! for Thane:

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era of modern flsts are finding that the “ ‘phone in every room" is setting s problem in design. Many small flats are now having "phone niches" built in- to the walis and corners. This en- ables the telephone to be safely out of the way and yfii REP 1i in view; for the-latest type ofcoioumd hand micro-telephone is suffi- ciently attractive to be worth putting “on show" in a modem home. 1h some Mayfair nuts arbour niches are installed above the bath- Stainless steel "dials" are fitted to these bathroom ‘phones to avoid rust.

_______.___. FAT t-"orna: an T00 mean or Au. TYPES or r000

We are never left 1on8 WWW" some allusion to obesity in W0- men, says a writerin the New Health Magazine. Obesity in men seems to excite no popular interest; who experienced Journalist 161V" 3 4t merely alone, it would seem ;_pot to lave any clrculstio -in-

_._,,;_wirease value ~ -; But obesity in women as a tonic always with us. flatness isfirst _ ' all constitutional in the will! , some women. llthoush they msy git re " ‘ email B11011!“ of fat-mcduclng food. tend to 11y en fat in excess of the rhvsiolosi- on! requirements. Other women

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blessed are the homemaker-s, ~ do this tiny trifling mu day ‘ after dreary day; 0 8% up coals. and sweep the atone. and light the kitchen fire, a. lyric of their livu to Yes, blessed are those loyal souls Qt polish taps, or mangle clothes inc rise up early every day, and

» Few people realize how quickly Y-itho-germs collect on the fly swat-

tond to remain lean, unkindly cal

stltution i5 called O16 “anabolic

lay up stores of fat which re present the hydrogen of the food- Further

more, thevast majority of mid

from such disabilities in

ilnd all to be a romemaker and both these types eat too freely of keep a home tollether. ail types of food and the -~F‘hy Ihdhidwn- carbon and hyrdogen of this food

is laid up unoxldised at fat. The treatment. is extremely simple: reduce the fats (cream, etc.) and the sugar and starches and live for a time mainly on

i?" Hid 90min! i5 8V6!‘ d0!!! i0 meat and vegetables and fruit- L5,] 89$ rid 0f then}- Pour boiiin! Meat means all the introdgen-con- ,,_,,,,, whim‘ through ii ddlly and keep alning substances-Jish included. i , down ihe germs. In this way the body-fat will be

b“!!! UP in supply the

necessary animal heat.

STUDY CHILD'S DREAMS T0 DETERMINE CAUSE

Grown-ups take

their own dreams rather seriously, yet parent are likely to pooh-pooh

the dreams of children-

Wheh We My "seriously" we don't mean that we rush to dream books. although some do. or to in- terpret them through Freud (and some do that, tool, bu; i: we have too many dreams. 0r nightmares, we begin to think about diet, going to bed earlzer taking a vacation, 0r buy- ing another mattress.

We know that something is wrong when we get up feeling morbid and blue from the left-over im- Pfediidhs (T the night.

It. happens that children are sub- ject to the same kind of dreams. If we only knew. perhaps they are

even more terrifying because theirs is an imaginative world, especially that of little children.

The big bear who seems so fun- ney in daytime stories may be a turn-coat at night- 'I‘he roller- cosster may decide to unroli it- self in dreamland and pursue its victim like a huge serpent.

CALM THE DREAMER Children often visualize things in

the dark they would never think of when the lights are oh No mat-

led "sorlggy", all their days The female W90 of physiological con-

or balding-up type. which means that the general tendency is to

oxidised carbon and

die-aged women for one reason or another do not take nearly enough muscular exercise. Many_ suffer their feet as tend to make walking dif- ficult or painful; those who have cars go about in them those who have not, hardly walk at all. Bu;

“c955 ger brother of the Black Prince.

butter. and OI the sights 0f London town.

apprehensive ‘

B o __ ‘ I k . .. ° Sflglém’ : Dflrot/Iy Dzx’s Letter Box I m’ " a‘ a’ i Ytklgf Husband Will Have a Hundred Love bx”, %,!,J,,s,t,:%,,-;c;,,,g mum,“ f 8lrsY— Give Ham Time to Cool Off Be- - m. asucimlmed by m‘ 833w: hi: ore ou Run Off to Reno to Seek a e11 as w Ordinary man's csrm- " Divorce

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excellent artist.

wick has written about

before he was a poet.

Geoffrey Chaucer first appears in history in a. record of 1357 which tells us that he was a page in the household of Prince Lionel, a youn-

Mr. Sedgwick seizes every oppor- tunity of introducing fascinating glimpses of the history of the times

though he in no way neglects Chaucer's importance as a poet. He tells of Chaucer's campaigns and diplomatic missions which brought him in contact with the French and Italian influences apparent in his earlier poetry. Interesting also is the period of Chaucer's life when he held the position of comptroller of the customs on wools in the Port of London and was given a lense for life of the dwelling over Aldgate. famous in history. On his walks from his house to his omce ‘Chaucer passed through a crowded ipart of London where he saw and

sion of his admiration for a most It is not a schol- ars book that Henry Dwight sedg- the first Emit Ellliiih DWI. but a. book for ordinary people, filled with the de- tails of the life, so far as the mea- gre records allow, and often aug- mented by pleasing imaginative pic- tures, of this first real Englishman who was primarily a human being

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have neither.-

Answer: ' '

There are as many angles to divorce ss there are to individual parson- siitfes, and what is the wiseand the right thing for the wife to do when her husband asks her for his freedom depends upon the individual tom- perament of the man.

ally incapable of ever being faithful

passing attack of fancy.

‘noted many of the types which he iaftcrwards made famous in his .'“Canterbury Tales." Studying from] flife, not from old models,. was- ,Chaucer's particular talent; ' i i To Mr. Sedgwickk. way of think- ing "Troilus and Creseyde" is the best of Chaucer's poems—“the most musical, the most moving. the most interesting. the poem that more than any other determines his rank among Ekigiish poets." “The Can- terbury Tales." on the other hand. must be approached by way of prose. As a poet Chaucer has been surpassed by a number of llmgllsh- men-“but as a story-teller inverse, i or rather as the storyneller of the "Prologue to the Canterbury Tales." he is if not the best. neck-and-neck with the nearest competitors." Chaucer has sometimes written of People who were not great but "lusty and lcud, merry and exceed- ingly low," but his concern was to give his characters life and reality, and in the person of Harry Baiily 0f the "Canterbury Tales" he has drawn "the truest typical English- man that has ever been delirleated." Chaucer Fvcd at the same time as Claas Sluter, the sculptor from the-

ter how careful parents are about keeping fear of the dark out of a child's mind-almost anything can upset the apple-cart, and there it is

Children forced to go to sleep in the dark. after g, period of imagining everything under the sun, or moon rather ,for an hour or so, will wake up screaming About the kindest thing we can do is to get the dreamer up. put on the light and get his mind on something else before we leave him ts try it l-Gllin. Arid leave a light where it will reflect softoly into his room.

BITTER. DARKNE S S

As a matter of fact. it is not considered so terribly virtuous any more to abandon little folk to bitter darkness. Perhaps, when possible, it is best because they cannot see to play and will relax nore qulckly- Besides, sleeping in the dark is supposed to be more restful. But when the healer- darkneu-defeats itself and be- comes a horror, then why persist in it?

Children who sleep poorly, or jerk, or have night tenors, may have eaten too heavily or too richly at bedtime. 0r they may have run too much or had too much excitement and depleted nerve reserve. Or they may be otherwise upset and need a thorough going over- Or they may be unhappy and apprehensive

But merely saying. “Why there's nothing to be afraid of dear." is almost useless as a cure. Certainly there is a cause when the mind be- omnes an encny at night.

D0 YOU KNOW HOW TO LAZE?

How few of us really undef- stand the art of laaingl To be able to enjoy a. laae thoroughly, with- out ever bothering about any- thing at all is a gift not given to all of us. '

Really to benefit by our lazing it is first of all necessary to relax to put all thoughts of work and

enjoying itself- ‘ If you want a lesson in luxurior. jut

Low Oountrics. whcxe work was said-lo represent a new ideal—"the love of life expresed in stone-the love of this earthly human life of ours. such as it is. for better or worse." Contemporary also was Jacquemart de Hesdin, of France, whose prntings expressed charac- ter and mood in the human face altogether new to the artist of the fourteenth century.

These three "were swept along by the new inspiration emsriatingfrom the iivinc of life. Chaucer acknow- 1edg"d the authority of this new spirit of realism. and showed him- will the greatest master of them a ."

When he had Uwwn old Chaucer took a lense of a house in the gar- den of Saint Mary's Chapel beside Westminster Abbey, the site where H-mry VITs chapel now stands. Be- fore a year was out Chaucer died- in October Moo-and his lease en- titled him to burial in the Abbey.

The now famous Poet's Comer in Westminster Abbey owes its origin to this circumstance.

Jean Froissart. Flemish poet and historian and friend of Chaucer. visited the English court frequently. On one occasion, after a long ab- sence, he brought a gift to King Richard I'f who was a lover of the arts. He collected all the poems on love that he had written since he left England, had them handsomely copied and illuminated and bound in crimson velvet with silver studs and clnsps.

The lost art of illumination had reached its utmost beauty in the 13th and 14th centuries. it had be- Elln in Egypt long before the dawn of bookmaking-"The Book of the Dead." the first great poem of the Egyptians was an illuminated man- uscrlpt-had spread through the East. then to Western Europe and finally to France and England. and had outlasted. by a full century. the first messes in Euro ,

The monks are to be thanked for the loveliest specimens of this magnificent work which was done on vellum. the tenderest hide of kids and calm. After this parch- ment had been sized. filmed and dried many times.

and work and trade, the

the Jewelry. the very flood of time: to say nothing all down and beasts then known or dreamed

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For you cannot coerce love.

-happy together. another man in her life before we were married. fooled her under promise of marriage.

if I want it. I feel like taking revenge on the man who wronged her.

charming charmer comes along and for having protected him from his

together, prevented her children from being heir-orphaned and Still rwss- maniacs trok place in Newfound-

DeAr Miss Dix-Fly girl. He tried to be e w". no

him and refused him the divorce. though I still have my husband and my home, 1

wife in name only. are shattered. My health gone. My good looks going. My husband's hatred of me grows daily, He still loves the girl whose happiness and his he says I selnshiy mined, for she is married to some one slse and ls miserable also. would have been much better for all, me included. .lf ~I had given him his divorce when he wanted it. flow‘ I ofler him his freedom and he Sails 1t ‘is too late. WIFE

Nine times out of ten the romance wears itself Oui-

Ad-

dearly, I fought. desperately to hold Today, al-

My home is Just a house. I am a I am miserable. My nerves

I feel now that it

ABYIQTZR

There are men who us born philanderers and who are constitution-

to any one woman. They will always

have s thousand light loves. They will always be chuein! some HEW 5km- They will always bs having an affair with some Kiri- of this type thinks that he has at last found his soul mar-e and wand to be free w marry her. his wife is quite right in refusins w ammmdaw him by going to Reno until he has at least given his affections a time test and found out whether he is really suffering fro mthe Brand Passion Oi" B enmed- the Bile-W “"7111! B-Wdy

And when a man

A still more the philanderer is grateful to his wife folly. The wife has kept her home

esses whatever equity she had in her‘ unstable mate's heart.

There are other men who are good and kind and desirable as hus- Chateau Frontenac. bands, but who are fatally weak where women are concerned and whom Dectcd home n

any designing sdventuress can have terer and the cajoler.

artlessly asks him for diamond b.

for the taking. They fall for the flot-

They are the predestined victims of the gold-dig- ger. Any siren can lure these men temporarily away from their wives. Any delightfully at the tea hour-on Mon. 16-year-old little chlseler can make a grandpa believe that She loves him day in honor of her sisters, who are for himself alone and it is Just in the spirit of sheer childishness that she '~

and emerald rings.

Many s middle-aged man who has been a devoted husband and father daughm- shhqey m visiting with falls mm the hands of these girls who make him believe that he is too Mrs. McDonald's father, Mr. sce- young for his wife and that he will turn into a gay lad B-Bflin if he mar- wan q Mon-m And when his wife sees that he is about to commit mental and

rics her.

moral suicide by marrying a girl young enough to be his daushter, or some

hard-faced, stony-edged grafter who cares for nothing but his pocketbook, 5am will Ne,” m ‘elm that ‘he she is Justified in refusing to give him s divorce until he has had time to 15 m“, p1; 1, Hospital m. a w, get over his infatuation, and. for his rheumatism to begin painlng him, and weeym

for him to realize that after 60 a man finds his happiness at his own fire- side and not in treading the primrose paths.

But there are other marriages in which a man finds that his wife is

not his mate. They have nothing

on“ , ing to feed upo

_Then Fate throws in his way the woman who is his other self and i0 _ whom his very soul goes out, who gives meaning to life for him. chum.“ o’ Tlonm" WM have Men

in common. There is no wpiritual

between them. His love for her dies because it has noth- She bores him, is distasteful to him.

when this is the case. when a wife knows that some other woman can give

her husband what she is powerless

to give him, that this other woman

can make him happy while she makes him miserable, then all that she

you is like binding oneself to

can do in kindness to him and for her own self-respect is to let nlm go. You cannot make a man love you because it is his duty to. And to hold the body of a husband after his ‘plrit has

a rotting corpse. when we do that

which makes another unhappy, we only make ourselves miserable.

one

DOROTHY DIX.

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Dear Dim-I know two sisters who are well educated-quite pretty

th tall men th

and attractive, excellent cooks and housekeep c, but they arc extremely Jdm- i5 599ml"! l 3"" We“ with tall and it makes them self-conscious. ‘They won't. go with men who are h" bmtheil- 511' Andff-‘W "id 0°1- ndt as mu as they are, because thcythink it makes them look "runny." J- Q- MlwPhdil at the MacPhsil They could very easily date nice men who are shorter than they are, but “W579i!!! 8i we";

if they can't go out chances of being happily married is lessened by their height?

ey stay at home, Do you think their MRS. L. D. J.

Answer :

my husband fell in love with a. young ir about it and told me of it and plead. ted that I had been a sood and devoted wife. but he had Just 10st all affection for me. vised by relatives and friends, and chiefly because

A" visiting Mrs. McKlnnoifs parents

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L" crescent-bidet is Prof

vibe-mediums. I I I Mrs. W.D. Herridsd. of Washing-

Ottawa.

one

who has been spending a pleasant holiday with her parents the Chief

Justice and Mrs. M thieson, is leav-

Montreal. Mr. and Mrs. Prank

Qhauvin and diuidreh, 0f Montreal.

who are ‘- ildayiing at Keppoch. will

remain for another week, I O