EVE'S Vanity Case

Feilding Star, Volume 5, Issue 1032, 17 February 1927, Page 2

EVE'S Vanity Case

A CHILD’S SLEEP. To The, growing child -sleep m equally important as food, drink and fresh air. Indeed, considering mat we can iivo longer and much more healthfully without food than without sleep, we might class "sleep as even more important. Sleep, calm and untroubled, is essential because it gives all tlie organs ;f a oil it i css for irenyuiug ihe.m selves, and thus is mental and physical energy restored. Tot- it is astonishing how many parents allow, children of tender years to keep late hours for play.or study. The child who is difficult to rouse in tlie morning* lias not had sufficient rest, and a sufficiency should be ensured in the hours before midnight. If unduly late hours have been kept it is certainly better to allow him to “sleep it out” in the morning than to wake him out of sound slumber; depriving him of. sleep in this cannot fail to result iu fits of peevishness au irritability, and in sluggishness at school. ''Still, it is wrong to believe that allowing the little one to “sleep it out” iu the morning is all that is necessary to ensure him sufficient rest. Lying in in tlie morning is actually a loss to the child, lor it means that he is sleeping when his vitality should reach the highest peak.

,The bed’ : time hour should be fixed and adhered <to, and if a child is drowsy and hard to get out or bed ■,in the morning it can be taken as proof that bis' sleep .allowance is insufficient.

'Of course, if the room is not propeny ventilated, the child will awake dull and irritable instead of refreshed and. vital ; but as a general thing these symptoms mean nothing more than an insufficiency of: sleep. A child’s going. to bed should be a pleasant affair—no threats and no force, tie should, the soothed with a “tuck in” and a good-night-kiss—and this, by tliq way, should be final; there should be no calling out and asking for things afterward. He cap. be trained in these good habits from babyhood, and when lie emerges into bis ’teens, and finally into manhood, ho will Jqive tlie habit well ingrained. Much; of the insomnia which troubles those in their early manhood ajid womanhood, as well as those iu their middle, years, is a 'nervous* w/irtlaoß, the foundations of .which we.ro , tt icf by varying bedtime hours, and erratic sleep during childhood. wise, good mother- is' the one who never allows anything Lj nw .

eluld of a’single hour of that sleep so vital to liis future- well being. V

Top often the little ones arc allowed to stay up till toward midnight, then in the morning have he, roughly wakened bcior-b they luivo had their sleep out and rushed through a breakfast for which they have very little appetite. Tiien they go off to school in a lowered state of vitality which keeps them behind the bright sparks whose, parents are sensible enough to insist upon regular hours and-full time sleep, y.

FROCKS FOR- CHILDREN

Washing frocks for school room and nursery folk are a great boon during the summer mouths, for these may be as simple or as smart as occasion demands.

livery year the manufacture of coloured linens, voiles, muslins, giughams and other cotton washing 'materials seems to get a stage nearer perfection. Colours do not wash out as they used to; more, they do not fade so quickly. Some, indeed, may be said to he fadeless, and, greatest boon of all are those uncrushable linens which keep 'clean much longer than any other kind of cotton material, for the very excellent reason that they do not crush. These linens may be had in almost every shade and are invaluable for school and every day wedr. They will' kefep their pristine- freshness much longer if they arc worn with detachable •collars and cuffs of white muslin or georgette.

These should be made detachable in order that they can easily be removed and washed.; With a clean collar and clean cufFs to brighten it up. an linen frock can often be made, to last through the season without visiting the wash tub, especially if it is made in -otic of the darker shades. Pleats are smart for the small girl as they arc for her mother, and many of the linen frocks have side pleats or pleated panels. Another good idea is to make up uncrushable linen into sleeveless overdresses to be worn over long-sleeved guimpes of lawn, in white or some contrasting shade. , Very dainty overdresses of the kind may be -made- from a straight piece ol embroidered flouncing, which may be hud now in almost all summer colours.

A navy -sorgo overdress with a pow-der-blue linen long-sJcovod guimpo is most useful lor chilly days, especially, if there is a long douhlebgousted coat ol navy serge- to complete the rig. The hah could be either in the navy or in the powder blue. , LAVENDER BAGS. This is the season to replenish all our lavender hags with the- best fresh {lowers. Instead of many little bags to slip in between the folds of our linen it is a good idea to make a bag of Japanese, silk |On fine muslin to lit into the bottom of each drawer. In each corner of the bag and in the centre put some lavender, and then sew round to keep it in place; so that-your bag will have somewhat the appearance of being quilted. In this way the whole drawer is scented and von will pot have to engage in a hunt lor small hags, which have such a habit of ! straying into odd corners. The. same idea may he carried,,out in linings for your travelling trunks. Covers made to.match add a delightful finish to the appearance of both drawers and trunks.

DICKENS’ DREAM HOUSE

If over, there was a house ol dreams, that house was Glad’s HilJ Place, near Rochester, where Dickens lived tliO' last dozen, years of his Ido*. As a not' over well-cared for boy lie lived at Chatham, and tie tells in his own words that this house .was “literally a dream of my childhood.' ‘,‘YVlien I was a small boy down in tbeso parts,” he wrote- to his French Ino ml, Do Ccrjafc, “I -thought it the most beautiful house over seen. And my poor father used to bring me to look at it, and used to say that if L oner grew: up to be a clever man perhaps I might own that house, in remembrance of which I have always in passing looked to see if it was to he sold or let, and it has never been to me like any other house, and it lias never changed av all.” v-'i

An Clio lire:,in was to conic true!, Ojjo diiy in 1855 lie discovered the house was for sale; ho was then at •,<w Jieight of his fame, and was able to purchase it. He entered into possession of it in 1857, and made it Ins Jiome henceforth

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SOCIAL NOTES.

A message from Paris says blue m all shades, is to > the ftisbionablo colour of the spring. Blue from the palest hyacinth to the, deepest peacock will bo featured in the gowns and hats of the well-dressed woman when the sun returns.

Another step in what it is hoped ■will be an early revival of the Nottingham lace (trade has been marked by the Queen's purchase! of a large quantity of Nottingham made lace and ilouncings. These have been forwarded to the Court dressmaker to be made uty for the Queen’s own use. • *f » w

. “There wai a day when woman prisoners had their hair shorn as a punishment and a disgrace,” said Dame Madge Kendal in an address at a men’s meeting at Whitcficlds institutional Church, Tottenham. Court road, London. “Now it is the fashion,” she added, “and I sometimes find myself walking behind what I take to be a boy I know, and find that it is a girl I don’t know.” Why you want to change women into men 1 do not know. You can only make a wood "irl into a bad boy. She cannot to rs # be a good boy iu appearance, and she might be a good girl.’" SCONES AND TEA BREAD. Sally Lunn. —With three teacups-of Hour, mix a half teaspoon of salt, in a half pint of warm milk dissolve a ivioce of butter the size of a walnut. Stir together till, liquid a half ounce of compressed yeast, and a teaspoon of line sugar, and/ alter beating iu an egg, add tlie slightly warmed milk. .Mix with tlie Hour and when lightly kneaded, divide and place in three greased small round tins. Allow them to stand near the fire for 40 minutes or until well risen, then bake rather quickly. Cream Scones. —With four teacups of Hour mix a slightly heaped teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda, a level teaspoon of cream of tartar, and a half teaspoon of salt. Stir sour cream in gradually (usually rather more than two cups), making the dough ■rather too soft to roll. On a weJJllourcd board lightly form a portion into a bull, then press it fiat with the knuckles. Have ready a hot greased girdle or solid oven shelf,, resting on the hobs over a small clear lire, and cook the scones rather slowly on both sides. This quantity is intended to make six scones. Leave them folded flat one above the other in a cloth until cold. They are nicest when a dav old.

Plain Soda Scones.—Mix with four j 'teacups of flour a teaspoon each of ! bicarbonate of soda and cream of tartar, and a half teaspoon of salt. Mix to a very light dough with butter milk or sour milk—usually about half a pint. Shape and press lightly with the hand or rolling pin, making five or six tilin scones, which bake on a fairly hot girdle or its. substitute. J