TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 23, 23 December 1927, Page 6

TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW

FLU’ FEVER (THE RELAPSE.) With apologics to Mr. Mascfield, I must go back to my bed again, to my attic nde the sky, And all I ask is a sheetless hed and blankets warm and dry And a cool drink and a ‘path and a bath-sheet baking; And no letters or "phone calls till my head’s stopped aching. I must go back to my bed agaiu, for the signs of the fell disease Are a high temp. and a hot temp. and pains in the back and knees: And all I ask is some perfect peace with loved ones far away, And blinds to shut out an ‘Yanglish | spring and its skies lead-grey. I must go back to my bed again, to | the old familiar bore Of temp.-taking and chart-making and | ‘the mixture as before’; ~And all I ask is a cheery book with a pretty girl on the cover, And a deep sleep and a great sweat | when the hot fit’s over. CA oe ae, oth ek eee, 26 eee, 26 See, 26 Ae, 26 eee,

"Dwellers in the Dark." Theie is a picture by Millais of ‘fhe ‘Blind Girl," with Titian red hair, sitlung on a stone by the roadside, her lips parted im a smile of wonderment as she listeis to her sister’s descriplion of a rainbow, One day, another picture will be painted. It wall portray a blind boy with earphones intently listening, with the same sinile ot pure dehght and enchantment. Low much radio means to the blind, the blind alone can tell, It means so much that it, should be an endeavour at this season of goodwill to sce that no blind or deaf person goes unprovided with a set of some kind. + * By "Bill tor Beauty Culture.’ ‘the business of making the American Wouilal eycu intore lovely than did Nature has ow become oue of the major idustrics m America, American women ate spending £865,000,UU0 yearly jor beautification and its aids. dn the lust teu years, two siguificant tlings have happened to the American woman, "One is that she has tearned how to cuok. She has studied foods and their uutrilion values, and to a large extent dyspepsia has been banished trom the American home. ‘She other phenomevon is that the American woman has, by the use of preparations and cosmetics, ceased to become old. She is wetting the best out of life to the last minute, and is "crowding old age up to the grave’s edge." Grandmothers shed their tresses along with their grand-daughters. ‘There are now 14,000,000 shingled heads in America. ‘ % + Easy Fire-lighting. If about half-a-dozen paraffin cinders are placed un the paper used when lighting a fire, only half the usnal amount of kindling wood is needed. Iiach morning as the grate is being cleared, a few cold cinders should be put in an old tin, and kept saturated with kerosene. The fire will never need watching in its early stages. Fir] w Be Three Secrets. ; ‘Yo remove splashes of frome glass windows, tub with a piece of stick dipped in hot vinegar. This will easily remove even old and hard splashes. 9. Clean windows with a soft cloth and a few drops of methylated spirit. This gives a good polish and 1s less trouble than using water. Finish with a chamois leather. 3. Mashed bananas uscd with a very little apricot jam make a delicious filling for sandwich¢s, ua ie a Apple Peclings. . If apples, instead of stewed, are placed in a jer with a little water, sugar, cloves, or lemon rind, and the peelings laid on top of the fruit, and the whole covere and cooked in a slow oven till tender, the flavour will be infinitely superior. The juice will be the real thing and will form a jelly when cold. Apple tarts should have the fruit cooked first in the piedish with the peelings on top, to be removed when the pastry is put on. These peelings hoiled in alunijnium saucepans will clean them. & " a Pan Problems. A new enamel pan should be piaced in a larger pan of warm water, let if come to the boil and then cool. It will neither crack nor burn if thus treated and will last far longer. If before boiling milk the saucepan is rinsed out with cold water the milk will not burn or stick to the bottom.