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Our favorite standâ€"bys, navy blue and the darker navy known as “mid- night,” have a somewhat formidable rival, or at least a close running mate, in the numerous brown tones, such as led, walnut, bronze and the under Braised Beef seems new, although it is simply steak cut into small pieces With several slices of onion laid on Qach. seasoned and then dredged in gout. set in a pan in a hot oven and aked. Serve with a water gravy made after lifting out the meat by adding flour and boiling water to the fat. Use the oven at the same time for muffins and baked potatoes. Steak Pie is very nourishing. Cut the skirt steak into small pieces, add Small potatoes, 9. cupful of chopped celery and two onions. Cook slowly in stale bread, moistened and seasoned with salt and pepper and sage, a beaten egg and chopped celery. Lay over top and brown in oven. Serve from the baking dish. Color as applied to dress is always An important subject, and the new colors are particularly interesting. Lamb en Casserole is always good. To two pounds of rack of lamb, cut up in small pieces, allow three large potatoes, diced, three sliced onions, two diced carrots and a shredded green pepper. Season and cook slowly with enough water to cover. Keep the lid ‘down tight, as this makes the meat md vegetables tender and saves all the flavor. a little water for an hour. Thic'ken the_ gyavyAand make a top crust of Ham and Rice Croquettes are made much the same way, except that cold boiled rice is used in place of potato and cold ham is minced fine to mix with it. Roll these in egg and then flour and fry in deep fat. For those who dislike salmon in the usual form, try combining it with mashed potato and a beaten egg. Then shape into cakes, dip in cracker crumbs and fry. Served with a few drips of bacon, they are even better than the common codflsh cake. Even the best of steak and chop and roast main dishes become uninterest- lng it served too often, so it is well to find some different foods that will fill the same place on the menu and yet please the most fastidious appetite. For breakfast choose a fruit cooked with sugar, a cereal rich in calories, cocoa instead of coffee, eggs and toast, muffins, or rolls with marmalade. A glass of milk can have its food value increased by putting a beaten egg into lbâ€"or malted milk, or chocolate. For unch, add bacon to cheese dishes, and ettuce sandwiches. Serve it with eggs and vegetables. Serve cream or butter plentifully on vegetables. What are the fattening foods?â€"cer- eals, fats, cream, sugar, and starchy vegetables. If you add rich sauces, cakes, pastries, and candy to your usual meals, you may gain weight, but you may also have a digestive upset. Increase the amount of food eatenâ€"- use two squares of butter instead of one, drink a glass of “half-and-half" instead of milk. Eat an extra muffin vâ€"bran muffins take lots of butter. Eat salads with mayonnaise and des- serts with whipped cream. Add nuts, raisins, figs, or dates to your dinner. At all times choose a laxative diet, Including plentiful amounts of bran, whole cereals, fruits, and vegetables. The fibre from these materials will help keep you in good condition. Fresh fruits and vegetables also stimulate the appetite and enable you to eat more heartily. If you are underweight, take stock of yourself by getting weighed and by making a list of foods with the ap- roximate amounts you have eaten for he last few days. Analyze this list and decide where you can best add foods which will make fat. Why worry about underweight? Chiefly because an underweight person has little reserve when attacked by illness. Also because a thin person is likely to be of a nervous temper- ament andâ€"shall we whisper it?â€" less even disposition. HOW TO BE PLEASINGLY PLUMP. Sometimes a corpulent lady is heard to say about another woman, “Isn't she scrawny? I prefer being over- weight to looking like that.” The thin woman may hold just the opposite ooinionâ€"and there is something to be said on both sides. It would be wonderful, of course, if we all were the proper weight, the ideal height, had curly hair, and a real complexion. But we are not. FurthermorHven though man has gone far in assisting nature as to hair and complexionâ€"i we cannot change our height, but we can, in most cases, get fatter or thin-‘ her if we conscientiously try. CHARMING COLORS FOR AUTUMN WEAR. MAIN DISH CHANGES. About the House 4653. Here is Fashion's latest ex- pression in blouses. It may be finished with square neck outline, or with the little band collar at high neck line. The sleeve is smart in wrist length, and popular and very comfortable in the short length of the small view. This Pattern is cut in 6 Sizes: 34, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44 inches bust mea- sure. A medium size requires 27/5 yards of 40-inch material. Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 20c in silver, by the Wilson Publishing Co., ’73 West Adelaide st, Toronto. Fashions MIDDY TIES. All of my friends admire my little daughter’s new middy ties, quite un- suspicious of their humble origin. When I decided that fifty cents each was more than I could afford to pay for the ties displayed in the stores. I turned hopefully to my rag bag and unearthed some odds and ends of silk of before-thaws: quality which made up beautifully into middy ties. I used an old tie for a pattern and, where piecing was necessary, the seam was made where it would be concealed by the middy collar. Then there was the old china silk waist. worn in the sleeves and cream- colored from much laundering, which seemed to offer possibilities. This fur- nished material which, with the aid of acme bite of “dyeing soap" which I happened to have on hand, were trans- formed into two beautiful ties, one of brown and one of red. Send 15c in silver fo_r our up-toâ€"date Fall and Winter 1924â€"1925 Book of The remnants of long-discarded foulard dress made a lovely tie with large white polka dots on a navy blue background. Another tie cut from an old roman stripe silk scarf adds a gay bit of color to a white middy blouse. Altogether I felt my rummage in the rag bgg had been well worth whlle. And the lusciousness of the peach and the apricot is cleverly suggested in silks of these colorings, and in orange and banana tones, too, that fairly make your mouth water. But remember that although the season may well be called “colorful,” it is a collection of harmonious colors rather than the jazz of the spring and summer seasons just pastâ€"if we liken color and color combinations to music, which, don't you think, we can. Surely you have seerl color combina- tions that jar and distress, and again groupings of color as soothing as a mother‘s lullaby. Colors for evening wear and special- occasion clothes are flowerlike in tones and shadesâ€"yellows that delight the eye as do the dafl'odils, buttercups and dandelions of spring, morning-glory colorlngs‘of delicate pink; and others of orchid, and thistle tones. Rose reds there are, too,,in a plentiful array. There are, too, some lovely soft med« ium blues, gray-browns, gray-greens and a more brilliant and richer green called “shutter green," as well as a lighter, more b'rilliant green, like jade. Then there are softer greens that re- call the cool beauty of a waterfall or the moss of trees. The Chinese trend in line has touch- ed a responsive note in color, or per~ haps it is the other way round. How- ever, it really doesn’t matter by what route have come the reds like lacquer, and mandarin blues and yellows, since these are so pleasing that we welcome them without information as to their reasons for being: color of mushroom, all good style for street wear. Black, too, if you like, for black is an allround favorite for both street and evening wear. A STYLISH BLOUSE ming, this animal must surely be the hardles‘t and most enduring of “water dogs,” for he can swim twenty or twenty-five miles with but moderate emort. The s‘puin'el ls still another sur prise, when it comes to swimming. read of a sportsman who experimente( to learn whether these little animal: swim naturally. He selected one the; had been born andmlsed in captivity and took It in a boat to the centre 0‘ a. lake. The instant the squirrel W8! The Indian elephant must be a powerful swimmer, to judge by the surprising burdens he carries across great rivers. It takes both strength and skill to swim When heavily loaded. The polar beax is a marvel in the water. He is not the swiftes‘t of swim- ers, but considering the' icy tempera- ture 0f the water and remembering that cut»! is a great deterrent in swim- liberated it made for the shore it swam so rapidly that the ma: much difficulty to recapture it.â€" Eubanks; "Did you hear Smith : just celebrated his golde Impossibleâ€"he married or A music-stand has been invented which will turn over the sheets when a foot lever is pressed. The rhinoceros and the hippipota- mus are both good swimmers, and the latter is one of the very best divers. The reindeer is at home in the water, as shown by his method of deep sub- mersionâ€"he keeps his head but a lit- tle above the surface. The elk carries his head well out of water and avoids turning: he likes to go directly from bank to bank and get it over quickly. "Not impossibleâ€"he ma with a million, you know." Emma 9mm 3 gm: NOWFHNF) may And that reminds me of another in- teresting fact along the same line. fur seals cannot swim when first born; they are actually afraid of the water, and have to learn. But once they have mastered the art, they soon forget to walk. Animal Swimmers. Nearly all large animals are better swimmers than man. With our flat palms, we can outstrip many of the smaller-footed creatures and most of the big animals have us beaten when it comes to swimming. Anthropoid apes, because of theiu‘ build, are com- monly believed to swim as well as man. but the fact Ls that they cannot swim at 8111 unless“ taught by trainers. i Rheumatism attacks people when ithe blood is thin and watery. or {charged with impurities. thus setting iup inflammation of the muscles and ijoints. Cold, wet weather onsharp ‘winds may start the pains, but the ‘cause is rooted in the blood and to get relief it must be treated through the blood. As a blood builder and nerve tonic Dr. \Viiliams' Pink Pills are un- surpassd, and [or that reason do not fail to give relief to rheumatic suffer- ers when given a fair trial. Among the rheumatic sufferers who have proved the great value of this medi- cine is Mrs. Simeon J. Tatton. Indian Head, Sask., who says:â€"“For over two years I was an intense sufferer from rheumatism and until I began the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills no treatment that I took helped me any. The trouble grew so bad that I could not move around the house without help, and finally I had to give up and go to bed. Words cannot tell how much I suffered, and I could not bear to have anyone come near me. Finally one of my neighbors strongly urged me to try Dr. VVilliams' Pink Pills, and I decided to do so. In the course of a few weeks I could feel an improve- ment, and I was able to get up. I kept on taking the pills until all traces of the trouble were gone, and I could again do my housework, feeling like a new person. Three years have pass- ed since that and there has never been the slightest return of the trouble, so that I feel sate in saying that the re- lief brought by this medicine is‘per- manent." You can get the pllls from your drugglst, or by mail at 50 cents a box from The Dr. Williams Medlclne Co., Brockville, Ont. By Driving the Poisonous Acid from the System. His Golden Wedding swimming. I experimented little animals acted one that 1 in captivity, the centre of ' he had wedding? a girl was and had The painter of pictures may spend weeks in searching for a suitable sub- ject, and even when he gets an idea he may be unable to carry it out for lack of a model. Millais, I believe, carried the idea of his picture, “Cher- ry Ripe," in his mind for a long time before he chanced to meet Lord Claren- To the designer his garden is, per- haps, his main source of inspiration. for the colors and contrasts among flowers and leaves are endless. But just as the writer may get a bright idea. for an article from a paragraph in a. daily newspaper, so a designer may find himself inspired by a picture on a. wall or a drawing in a book. There is no question of cribbing. The curve of a line may be sufficient to start the train of thought which in the end pror- duces- something entirely original. In the matter of designing the field is immense; but just as the writer must keep his eyes open to the homer happenings that surround him, so the artist must possess the seeing eye and an attention ready at all times to glean ideas which can be worked into de‘ signs. So my eyes were first opened to the endless search for subjects which is partâ€"almost the principal partâ€"0f the artist’s work. “By watching a swallow attémpting to alight on a creeper clinging to a wall,”>he answered promptly. I was recently in the studio of a friend who is a designer. The place was full of studies for exquisitely pat terned stuffs and wallpapers. One de- lightfully dainty design particularly took my fancy, and it occurred to me to ask the artist 110W he got thfiidea. Everyone who writes fiction knows the difficulty of plot construction. The reader. too, gets occasional glimpses of the author’s agony. But when it comes to painting, does the layman ever give a thought to the artist’s dif- ficulty in finding subjects? 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