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To wash or not to wash? Soap and water as a cleanser seem to be going out of style these days. But I confess to being oldd‘ashioned. For I like the tang of water and the deep, cleansing feeling of a soap on my face. Perhaps you are the same? Then you’ll be glad to know that I am going to talk about soap this month. x c has a marked patternâ€"a little i' -- :nspicuous one doesn’t countâ€"and 1‘; draperies are plain, then you are 9; "c to use a pattern in the rugs and he p your upholstery plain. But if the paper is plain, the curtains pat- hned, and the upholstery also pat- iv-'ned, then the rug would be better pl: in too. It is all a question of bal- arz‘ng the attention-compelling spots in the room. Always we try to keep ~‘(nne quiet space, and some decorated spaces. If either one gets overdone 1he room is uncomfortable. But therei is no need of having a decorator to. tell when you have enough pattern.f Just look around. If the wall is:1 strong in pattern, and curtains and‘ furniture weak, of course the floor has‘ to have something lively to balance‘ it. On the other hand, if the wall is simple and curtains and upholstery. much decorated, there’s no room on‘ the floor for anything more. You need quiet and rest down there. i A simple test is to touch the soap with the tip of your tongue. Free alkali will burn and sting. Such a soap may be all right for the kitchen floor, but not for your face. You can dis- regard that soapy taste. That only means that the soap has everything in it a soap should have. Many women have an idea that col-l ored and perfumed soaps are bad.‘ This is not so. It is impossible to give a soap a pleasant perfume unless it contains pure ingredients. In the same way, you can’t make a bad soap pure white. But that doesn’t mean that only White soaps are good soaps. For a natural green tone comes from the use of certain rich oils. Other soaps shade all the way from a Third, a solid contrasting color, as blue, which is the best color always to use in large quantities in contrast with tans and browns. Again, these may be plain or patterned, but the total effect of that color mixture on your floor must be dark enough to hold the floor down in place below the wall. For all colors of walls the principle of color selection in rugs remains the sameâ€"either showing the same color, a contrasting color, or a combination of the two. As for pattern in rugs, again study your wall paper. But this time study : iso your curtains and the coverings ‘ - your chairs and sofa. If the pa- creamy tan to a warm, dark brown. These colorings are caused by the secret processes with which these soaps are cooked, while those dainty pink andlavender tints are the rich ingredients in the perfumes. So, you see, most soap is good soap. It. only remains for you to select the one that will help you. In general, cream soaps, oatmeal soaps, and ollve- oll soaps are for thin, dry skins. Medi- cated soaps and sulphur soaps are for skins that have eruptions. Butter- milk soaps, lemon and lime soaps, and First, a slightly darker tan or brown. Remember, we must keep the general tone of our floors darker. It may be a tan background with many small notes of darker brown in it, so that it gives an impression of some- thing quite dark. It may be a solid body color of darker brown. But keep it darker if you want your room to be comfortable to live in. Second, a tan with some blue and possibly some touches of rose or mul- berry in the pattern’. a rug. The quality and kind you can determine afterward, but once that color and that pattern are down on the floor we have to live with them, willy-nilly, for many years. Color and pattern are the first two things to think about when buying a Ilow cém you tell what color? Study your walls first. If they are brown or any of its relationsâ€"tan, cream. ecru, or even ivoryâ€"the chances are that your best choice in rugs will run to one of three things. “Is there an easy way to open sea]- ed jug? demanded the young house~ keeper, very exasperated and red of fact; “I’d much rather prepare fresh fruit or vegetables than try to open a jar of canned ones. I’ve cut my WHAT TO BUY IN A RUG. WHEN ;k‘ About the House ISSUE No. 9â€"â€"'24 JUST JAR TOPS STICK SOAP to whiten, while are for the nor- are inclined to i well to select “Hot water," answered her exper- ienced friend. “Pour hot water into a dipper or small basin to the depth of a couple of inches or more. Invert the can in it and leave for five min- ! utes. Do not, of course, plunge a very .cold glass jar into boiling water. At , the end of a few minutes you will find Ethat the cover comes ofl’ very easily. To crease your hem perfectly before beginning hand sewing on napkins, irun the edges through a hemmer on [your machine. with the needle un- gthreaded. What is usually a dreaded task becomes greatly simpiified if this iprecaution is taken. fingers, spoiled my best paring knife and nicked ever so many of my new jars in the process." “Obstinate corks are readily re- moved in the same simple way.” Nickproof chinaware. A self-picking cherry tree. A rainproof wash day. A self-filling school lunch box. ‘An automatic self-starter for the day’s work. A cluck that can be glued to her eggs for the full period of incubation. A formula for finding a teen-age youngster when you have need of him. Chemically treated garden seeds guaranteed to produce a crop of ready canned vegetables. A portable telephone that need not be trotted after from the top floor of the house or the end of the garden. WHEN HEMMING NAPKINS. FARM WOMEN'S WANTED COLUMN. 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(An Increase for the year of 872.360.000) Leaving a surplus over all liabilities and contingency funds of (Andncrease for the year of $3,603,000) The 318,443 ordinary policies of the Company protect homes and business” nt home and abroad, while in addition 22.731 commercial and industrial employees are protected under Sun Life group assurance policies Every figure in this statement sets a The Record of a Great Year Simply Told NEW HIGH RECORD in Canadian Life Insurance history Dividends to policyholders again materially increased A spiral wash cloth that will enable Junior .to get his ears clean without maternal assistance. A silencing device for father's auto horn when it is used to hurry the fam- ily in the getting-ready process. 4283. This comprises a neat yoke dress that may be finished with or without the ruffle, and a petticoat and comfortable drawers. One may use voile, lawn, batiste or crepe for the dress and cambric or nainsook for petticoat and drawers. It will re- quire 1% yards for the Dress, Va yard for the Drawers, and 1% yards for the Petticoat, of 36-inch material for a 2-year size. A DAINTY SET FOR THE “LITTLE GIRLS” WARDROBE. HEAD OFFICE - - MONTREAL (An increase for the year of 835,168,000) (An increase for the year of 810,714,000) AT DECEMBER 3lst, 1923 I Cannibals recently discovered in iNew Guinea are reported by an ex- ‘ plorer to have features of a distinctly Jewish type, although their skins are lbronze. Tracmg' Winds in the Upper Air. The Royal Netherlands Meteoralogiâ€" cal Institute at De Bilt. near Utrecht. with branches elsewhere in Holland, used until some years ago for wind observations in the upper air, small rubber balloons, which were obtained from France. Then information came from Paris that the manufacturer of these balloons could furnish no more. The institute was thus reduced to the choice of ceasing the upper air obser- vations or having the balloons made in Holland. Experiments. began at once and continued for some time, and now it is said that they have been entirely successful. Largest Uneiplored Area. One of the largest unexplored areas in the United States lies in a triangu- lar space, between the Colorado and the San Juan River, in southeastern Utah. Here an area as large as some of the smaller Eastern states stlll re- mains practically unknown to white men. I It is stated that the small and light rubber bags made in an automobile garage at Utrecht can. after undergo- ing a certain chemical process, be easily inflated into large balloons that are plainly visible in the air. Further, it is claimed, observations with these balloons can be made at a greater height than was ever possible with the imported ones. On favorable days. ob- servations have been made at a height as great as 9.32 miles. 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